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:00:00. > :00:00.suppose it is compensation for the white paper in the constituencies.

:00:00. > :00:09.That was where things were heading. It is great to see him elected to

:00:10. > :00:14.the Scottish Parliament and Pauline back and Johann Lamont and James as

:00:15. > :00:21.well. For people who will make a difference.

:00:22. > :00:25.It wasn't, the Labour Party were predicted to take five. Nobody was

:00:26. > :00:31.addicting to Conservatives in Glasgow. If you look at the

:00:32. > :00:36.fronting, it is too retreads. No new talent emerging from the Labour

:00:37. > :00:44.Party to take the party forward. Danny Wells is an atypical

:00:45. > :00:48.conservative. Her mother used to be the domestic winner of performance

:00:49. > :00:52.weaker of the House of Commons and here is the archetypal new

:00:53. > :00:56.Conservative rift is time to bring forward. Quite extraordinary.

:00:57. > :01:04.Congratulations to for being allowed to bid say that the talent...

:01:05. > :01:05.It is not new talent. These are all Labour politicians who

:01:06. > :01:17.have been defeated. Hang on an minute. It is good to

:01:18. > :01:21.have people who have is. That is the mixture that brings into the

:01:22. > :01:26.Parliament. Congratulations to them. I think you should say... We are

:01:27. > :01:33.going to go, we are going to go to Glasgow to hear from Aileen Clarke

:01:34. > :01:36.who is with one of the new Conservative MSPs for the city.

:01:37. > :01:41.Annie wells congratulations, you are been returned on the list for the

:01:42. > :01:45.kith, how does that feel? It feels absolutely amazing. When you walked

:01:46. > :01:52.in here tonight did you think we would be having this conversation

:01:53. > :01:57.now? Probably not, no. Not 100%, but there was always a possibility, in

:01:58. > :02:00.an election, but it is an absolute dream. We should emphasise you are

:02:01. > :02:11.one of two Conservative politicians returned on the list this time. Yes.

:02:12. > :02:12.So the last time it was just Ruth Davidson, tonight it is yourself and

:02:13. > :02:13.Adam Tomkins, you must be pleased with that Absolutely delighted with

:02:14. > :02:18.the result. I think the result shows just how good a team we have in

:02:19. > :02:20.Glasgow, and how much Glasgow is changing towards the leadership and

:02:21. > :02:24.strength that Ruth Davidson is offering so it has been great,

:02:25. > :02:30.absolutely great. Are you finding you are being listened to now,

:02:31. > :02:33.Glasgow is a tough beat for you guys? We are being listened to more

:02:34. > :02:36.this year than last year, that is all coming round, because we are

:02:37. > :02:43.sending the right message out there, we are speaking to people more, and

:02:44. > :02:43.people are listening, understand what we are about and getting what

:02:44. > :02:46.people are listening, understand we are about. You said to me earlier

:02:47. > :02:51.you are getting less doors shut in your face Yes there are less getting

:02:52. > :02:57.shut in our face, more people are willing to stop in the street and

:02:58. > :03:00.speak to you, passing you by they will say who are you? They will

:03:01. > :03:05.still stop and talk. The result tonight we can see that Glasgow is

:03:06. > :03:08.changing as well. So, obviously, you are very delighted about your result

:03:09. > :03:13.but it has been a good night for the party It has been fantastic for the

:03:14. > :03:21.party. Again, we are still waiting in the regional list results coming

:03:22. > :03:25.out throughout the city but Jackson's win in Eastwood and

:03:26. > :03:28.keeping Ayr. The biggest is Mundell winning tonight, so it has been

:03:29. > :03:32.huge, it is new faces that are winning so that is ideal. So much

:03:33. > :03:39.for you to be happy about tonight? Oh delighted, yes. And obviously bed

:03:40. > :03:45.probably very soon! Thank you very much and congratulations once more.

:03:46. > :03:50.Thank you. Cheers. Annie wells saying she is delighted, a dream

:03:51. > :03:54.come true, and that Glasgow is changing in terms of its politics,

:03:55. > :04:04.the Tories picking up two seats there. Let us cross to Inverness I

:04:05. > :04:10.think. Dingwall. David Coburn is is leader of the Ukip. His party's lead

:04:11. > :04:15.candidate, obviously you are contesting only the seats at this

:04:16. > :04:21.election, David Coburn and we have only add that Glasgow list declared.

:04:22. > :04:27.How do you expect your party to do? I just don't know. It is all

:04:28. > :04:32.surprises. As you can see it looks like the unionist vote is trying to

:04:33. > :04:35.remove itself from Labour and go elsewhere, it seems tobacco lesing

:04:36. > :04:39.behind the Tory, I don't know we are doing at the moment. I am waiting to

:04:40. > :04:47.see what happens on the list. I hope a great deal will come to us, but it

:04:48. > :04:50.looks like it is a line up you know, either pro or against, independence.

:04:51. > :04:55.Which seems to be a continuation of what is going on before. It looks

:04:56. > :05:02.like the people, the Labour Party is pancaking. You have taken out a very

:05:03. > :05:05.strong pro yuck position, but yet -- pro UK position, it is the

:05:06. > :05:11.Conservatives at this election who seem to be picking up potentially

:05:12. > :05:15.that strong pro union vote. We don't know yet. I haven't seen our results

:05:16. > :05:21.so I can't possibly tell you. We await them with, you know, sort of,

:05:22. > :05:26.with excitement, and although I have had half an hour sleep in the back

:05:27. > :05:31.of a plumber's van, not the most comfortable thing to do. Until the

:05:32. > :05:36.figures come out I can't say, but I am very happy we are not having more

:05:37. > :05:41.Scottish nationalism or at least something is happening to change

:05:42. > :05:44.things, or the Labour vote is definitely collapsing and well

:05:45. > :05:49.deservedly the way they are behaving. During this campaign,

:05:50. > :05:55.people in your party calling for you to resign, clearly infighting

:05:56. > :06:02.remains a feature. Any chance that if you don't pick up seats you will

:06:03. > :06:07.be way? Certainly not. The people, there was seven people who were

:06:08. > :06:10.putting their, own personal careers above the party's who were moaning

:06:11. > :06:15.because they were not picked. Well bad luck to them. They are poor

:06:16. > :06:19.leerses and they have let down the party and let down the cause, I

:06:20. > :06:24.don't think people will misthem at all. David Coburn, thank you very

:06:25. > :06:30.much. One of those critics is the lead candidate in Lothian, we will

:06:31. > :06:35.hear how he does on the Lothian list in just a few moments time. I

:06:36. > :06:43.think... We have the declaration from Argyll and Bute. 29592,

:06:44. > :06:47.therefore given a turn out of 60.98%. I Sally louden Returning

:06:48. > :06:53.Officer for the Scottish Parliament election and Argyll and Bute

:06:54. > :06:57.constituency, here by give notice that the total number of votes

:06:58. > :07:03.polled for each candidate at this election was as follows. Cameron

:07:04. > :07:15.Donald, Scottish Conservative and unionist, 5840.

:07:16. > :07:32.Alan Reid, Scottish Liberal Democrat, 7583. Mick Rice, Scottish

:07:33. > :07:38.Labour Party, 2492. Michael Russell Scottish National Party 13561.

:07:39. > :07:52.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

:07:53. > :08:01.The total valid votes was 29476. Reasons for rejections voting for

:08:02. > :08:08.more than one candidate was seven, unmarked or void... So the SNP

:08:09. > :08:13.holding Argyll and Bute, the former cabinet secretary, Michael Russell

:08:14. > :08:22.re-elected as the MSP, with 13561 votes. The former Liberal Democrat

:08:23. > :08:28.MP Alan Reid in second with 7583. The Conservatives Donald Cameron

:08:29. > :08:34.with 5840. And Labour's Mick Rice with 2492. The turn out in Argyll

:08:35. > :08:40.and Bute 60%. Very strong turn out there. The SNP with 46% share of the

:08:41. > :08:44.vote, 26 for the Liberal Democrats, 20 for the Conservatives, and 8 for

:08:45. > :08:49.Labour. The SNP vote is down five there. The Liberal Democrats up 14.

:08:50. > :08:56.The Conservatives up 2 and Labour down 7.

:08:57. > :09:00.So a swing in Argyll and Bute. SNP to Liberal Democrat, a 9% swing but

:09:01. > :09:05.not enough to dislodge Michael Russell. He retains the seat for the

:09:06. > :09:10.SNP. Let us confirm the details of that Glasgow list result. The first

:09:11. > :09:16.regional list to declare. Four Labour, two Conservatives and one

:09:17. > :09:20.Green. So Labour's Anas Sarwar, Johann Lamont, James Kelly and

:09:21. > :09:24.Pauline McNeill elected. Let us see what happened in Lothian for the

:09:25. > :09:30.list declaration there. For the Lothian region. The electorate total

:09:31. > :09:37.list declaration there. For the electorate was 565860 votes. Total

:09:38. > :09:44.number of votes cast was 327719. So the turn out for the regional

:09:45. > :09:48.election was 57.9%. Parties standing in the Lothian

:09:49. > :10:03.region received their following votes. RISE 1641 votes.

:10:04. > :10:13.Scottish Conservative and unionist party 74972.

:10:14. > :10:45.Scottish Labour Party 67991. Scottish Liberal Democrats 18479.

:10:46. > :10:46.Scottish National Party 118546. Scottish Women's Equality Party,

:10:47. > :11:05.3877. Solidarity, 1319. UK Independence

:11:06. > :11:09.Party 5802. The candidates therefore who seats have been allocated are

:11:10. > :11:17.and unionist party. and unionist party.

:11:18. > :11:38.-- Miles Briggs. Alison Johnson Scottish Green Party.

:11:39. > :11:47.Kezia Dugdale Scottish Labour Party. Gordon Lindhurst Scottish

:11:48. > :12:00.Conservative and unionist party. Neil Findlay, Scottish Labour Party.

:12:01. > :12:10.Jeremy Balfour Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. And Andy white

:12:11. > :12:18.man Scottish Labour Party. man Scottish Labour Party.

:12:19. > :12:22.-- Andy White man. Big celebrations for the greens among others in

:12:23. > :12:25.Lothian, the Conservatives leapfrogging the Labour Party,

:12:26. > :12:29.finishing with three seats, Labour finish with two but getting their

:12:30. > :12:36.party leader Kezia Dugdale elected, and The Greens picking up the

:12:37. > :12:38.remaining two seats, in Lothian, a breakthrough for them, not just

:12:39. > :12:43.returning Alison Johnson who you see on the right of your picture there,

:12:44. > :12:48.returning Alison Johnson who you see but returning a second Green MSP, in

:12:49. > :12:54.Andy Wightman. In the centre of frame Kezia Dugdale leader of the

:12:55. > :12:58.Labour Party, one of two Labour MSPs elected in Lothian, they had three

:12:59. > :13:03.last time. And the Conservatives have finished ahead of them in this

:13:04. > :13:08.election. Now despite the fact that the SNP got far more votes than any

:13:09. > :13:12.of the other parties, because they have done well, they have performed

:13:13. > :13:16.strongly in the constituencies in this part of Scotland. They get

:13:17. > :13:23.nothing on the list. There is the confirmed result. Three

:13:24. > :13:27.Conservatives, two Greens, and two Labour MSPs, in Lothian.

:13:28. > :13:34.Conservatives, two Greens, and two Let us confirm the names. Miles

:13:35. > :13:44.Briggs. Gordon Lindhurst and Jeremy Balfour. Alison Johnstone returns

:13:45. > :13:46.with Andy Wightman and Kezia Dugdale for Labour re-elected alongside Neil

:13:47. > :13:52.Findlay who served in the last Parliament.

:13:53. > :13:57.Let us get Mid Scotland and Fife results. The electorate was 499093.

:13:58. > :14:06.The total number of votes cast was results. The electorate was 499093.

:14:07. > :14:15.291640. The turn out was 58.43%. The number of votes cast for

:14:16. > :14:25.political parties was as follows. RISE, 1073. Scottish Conservative

:14:26. > :14:35.and unionist party, 73293. Scottish Green Party, 17860. Scottish Labour

:14:36. > :14:43.Party, 51373. Scottish Liberal Democrats, 20401. Scottish

:14:44. > :14:58.Libertarian Party 650. Scottish National Party, 120128. Solidarity,

:14:59. > :15:03.1049. UK Independence Party, 5345. Total number of valid votes. I

:15:04. > :15:09.declare the regional member seats have been duly allocated to the

:15:10. > :15:12.following candidates. First additional member Murdo Fraser,

:15:13. > :15:19.Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. Second member Alec Rowley,

:15:20. > :15:24.Scottish Labour Party. Third member, Les Smith, Scottish Conservative.

:15:25. > :15:28.Fourth additional member, Claire Baker, Scottish Labour Party. Fifty

:15:29. > :15:36.additional member, Dean Lockheart, Scottish Conservative and credit

:15:37. > :15:40.union knit party. Sixth member, Stuart Alexander Stuart. 7th member.

:15:41. > :15:52.Mark usical Scottish Green Party. That result has doubled the number

:15:53. > :16:00.of conservatives representing that region, from two upto four. They are

:16:01. > :16:04.the big winners in mid-Scotland. Two seats for Labour. Three last time

:16:05. > :16:07.around. One for the Green party, breakthrough for them. They are the

:16:08. > :16:28.confirmed MSPs. Elected for the Tories... Labour's

:16:29. > :16:33.deputy leader, Alex Rowling. He has been elected alongside Claire Baker,

:16:34. > :16:35.who served in the last Parliament. And the Green party, Mark Orozco. He

:16:36. > :16:42.who served in the last Parliament. served as an MSP between 2003 and

:16:43. > :16:47.2007. He is making a comeback this time around. No prizes for the

:16:48. > :16:54.Liberal Democrats in mid Scotland and Fife.

:16:55. > :17:04.A breakdown of the votes... SNP winning the list in terms of number

:17:05. > :17:10.of votes. Not a single seat, again, because the system is designed to

:17:11. > :17:18.balance out the overall share of the boat parties get. And linking that

:17:19. > :17:24.to the number of seats they end up with in Parliament. Conservatives

:17:25. > :17:32.second but picking up four seats. Labour, third. Liberal Democrats,

:17:33. > :17:37.not getting a single seat. The Scottish Greens picking up one. No

:17:38. > :17:42.prizes either for the UK Independence party. All the smaller

:17:43. > :17:55.Socialist parties in mid-Scotland and five. -- Mid Scotland and Fife.

:17:56. > :18:06.The SNP down four. Conservatives, up 11. We can hear from their leader,

:18:07. > :18:10.Casey Dugdale. -- Kezia Dugdale. We do not forget the hard work you all

:18:11. > :18:13.do and nor should we take for granted the privilege of taking part

:18:14. > :18:19.in a democratic decision on who governs cars. Thank you to the

:18:20. > :18:24.people of Edinburgh and the Lothians for collecting me. It has been the

:18:25. > :18:32.honour of my life to campaign on your behalf. -- electing. I

:18:33. > :18:36.congratulate my opponent on securing a third term in office. I promise we

:18:37. > :18:41.will be a positive opposition in the coming years. This election was

:18:42. > :18:45.always going to be tough for the Scottish Labour Party, just one year

:18:46. > :18:50.after a painful general election defeat. I am proud that our campaign

:18:51. > :18:53.rose to the challenge of offering an alternative vision for what could he

:18:54. > :18:59.done in our new and more powerful Parliament. I would like to thank

:19:00. > :19:02.all of those who voted for my party across the country. All the people

:19:03. > :19:10.who volunteered and to all of our candidates. Your support means the

:19:11. > :19:15.world to me. I know that any disappointment felt by my colleagues

:19:16. > :19:20.and friends, who have lost tonight, is for Labour, secondary to the

:19:21. > :19:23.concern that they feel about the impact of cuts yet to come and

:19:24. > :19:26.continued austerity that working people across Scotland will face.

:19:27. > :19:30.continued austerity that working Labour in the new parliament, led by

:19:31. > :19:35.me, will do as we promised in this election. We will fight to make sure

:19:36. > :19:42.Parliament uses its new powers and fulfils its great potential. I was

:19:43. > :19:46.adamant I would fight this election about the future. Talking about the

:19:47. > :19:48.potential for change. Using the powers of our new parliament to

:19:49. > :19:52.potential for change. Using the deliver that change. Instead of

:19:53. > :19:56.rerunning arguments of the past. I know that for some, the

:19:57. > :20:00.constitutional argument remains the most important factor when casting

:20:01. > :20:05.their vote. My determination to try and move the debate forward will

:20:06. > :20:11.have cost me and my party tonight. But in the long-running, I think our

:20:12. > :20:16.politics has to be about the future of the economy, the life chances of

:20:17. > :20:19.children in this country and public services. And I and my party will

:20:20. > :20:25.continue to make that argument in our new parliament. I would like to

:20:26. > :20:29.thank the thousands of activists across the country who have worked

:20:30. > :20:34.so hard on this campaign. Not least all the members in Edinburgh East

:20:35. > :20:38.who ran a phenomenal campaign, often in recent times in my absence, and

:20:39. > :20:44.led by the best possible agent in Gareth Lodge. I pay tribute to my

:20:45. > :20:48.wonderful partner and soul mate. I have come a long way in this

:20:49. > :20:54.campaign and also had to come out as well. Thank you, Louise, for that.

:20:55. > :20:58.There is no defined -- no doubt our defeat is painful but it is not the

:20:59. > :21:04.end of our campaign. We continue to argue for Labour values, ideas and

:21:05. > :21:07.principles. We'll work to renew the Scottish Labour Party so that it is

:21:08. > :21:15.fit to serve the people of Scotland and we will continue. Thank you. The

:21:16. > :21:20.Labour leader, Kezia Dugdale, conceding the election and offering

:21:21. > :21:27.congratulations to Nicola Sturgeon on securing a third term for the SNP

:21:28. > :21:30.in the Holyrood 2016 elections. She said she was proud of the Labour

:21:31. > :21:35.Party campaign and said Labour in the new parliament, led by her,

:21:36. > :21:38.would continue to argue the case for Holyrood to use the new powers to

:21:39. > :21:45.fulfil the potential that they bring. And she also touched upon the

:21:46. > :21:50.Labour campaign. He said that the party's attempts to move the debate

:21:51. > :21:55.forward will have cost them votes tonight. Maybe a reflection on that

:21:56. > :22:05.from Brian Taylor. As he brings his analysis. That is really intriguing

:22:06. > :22:13.that she is willing to state that. The phase was not entirely gloomy

:22:14. > :22:18.but it was under infused. -- face. We can look at some of the results

:22:19. > :22:23.so far. Here is the chamber filling up here. Vast numbers of SNP members

:22:24. > :22:28.in the middle. Here is the chamber in more detail. 92 seats declared.

:22:29. > :22:35.We will get regional results as well. SNP, 58. They need 65 for the

:22:36. > :22:38.overall majority. Conservatives, 15. Keeping Labour so far in third

:22:39. > :22:45.place. The Tories not only picking up constituencies, but missed seats

:22:46. > :22:48.as well. Four for the Green party and for the Liberal Democrats. They

:22:49. > :22:52.were triumphant, understandably so, when they took a couple of seats on

:22:53. > :22:55.the mainland to match the seats of Orkney and Shetland. But now the

:22:56. > :22:59.the mainland to match the seats of Green party is eating into that.

:23:00. > :23:06.Winning on the list. The SNP are not winning seats on the list, why?

:23:07. > :23:08.Because they have umpteen seats in constituency votes. The Liberal

:23:09. > :23:14.Democrats are not, why? Other parties are ousting them. They are

:23:15. > :23:22.taking over more. We can look at the constituency share... That is the

:23:23. > :23:33.share of the vote of constituencies. SNP, 47. Pretty close, it was 45

:23:34. > :23:42.last time. 49.9 nine. Who is arguing? 50. Last year.

:23:43. > :23:49.Conservatives on 21. The Greens only getting a few seats. It is the

:23:50. > :23:51.change that tells the story. SNP up one percentage point. You say it is

:23:52. > :23:54.only 1% but they have been in power one percentage point. You say it is

:23:55. > :24:00.for nine years. This is a third term. The Labour Party are down nine

:24:01. > :24:09.and Conservatives up eight. Pretty much a standstill here. Let's look

:24:10. > :24:13.at the regional list share. A share of the vote on the regional list.

:24:14. > :24:18.Again, SNP at the top of that poll but because they have gained so many

:24:19. > :24:23.constituencies, they do not get much because it is a corrective

:24:24. > :24:27.mechanism. The Conservative Party are a little fraction ahead of the

:24:28. > :24:31.Labour Party. Maybe one reason why they are picking up list seats. The

:24:32. > :24:35.Green party is a fraction ahead of the Liberal Democrats. That is why

:24:36. > :24:41.they are picking up those list seats. Ukip among the others are yet

:24:42. > :24:45.to register. Thank you, Brian. A couple of words of analysis from

:24:46. > :24:48.Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University. He said it

:24:49. > :24:50.Professor John Curtice of now looks like the SNP are at risk

:24:51. > :24:53.of failing to secure a second now looks like the SNP are at risk

:24:54. > :24:58.overall majority in the Holyrood parliament. They will have to form a

:24:59. > :25:00.minority-owned administration, maybe with the support of the Scottish

:25:01. > :25:07.Green Party, who have doubled numbers up to four will stop he also

:25:08. > :25:12.says the concern --. He also says the Conservatives will head --

:25:13. > :25:17.emerge ahead of Labour comfortable it, although Labour are slightly

:25:18. > :25:26.ahead in terms of votes one on the constituency ballot. More I'm sure

:25:27. > :25:28.from him and our new political analyst who has joined us from

:25:29. > :25:33.Edinburgh University. Professor Charlie Jeffery. Across to Fiona now

:25:34. > :25:39.with our guest in the election A. Good morning. Good morning. I can

:25:40. > :25:43.see the regional results have woken up the election cafe for anybody

:25:44. > :25:46.having a sleepy moment. We have had fascinating reaction from spin

:25:47. > :25:51.doctors and journalists, commentators and bloggers. You

:25:52. > :25:56.describe yourself as a traditional Labour supporter. And also a former

:25:57. > :25:59.adviser to the Scottish Labour Party, Kevin Friend go, a former

:26:00. > :26:07.director of communications for the SNP. -- Kevin Pringle. The party's

:26:08. > :26:13.attempts to move on the constitution debate, it was said, has cost them.

:26:14. > :26:18.A dreadful might for Labour. It is very difficult to see where they go

:26:19. > :26:21.from here in Scotland. I have heard some opinions this evening along the

:26:22. > :26:36.lines of they must embrace the constitutional question

:26:37. > :26:46.they have migrated to all the SMP. So presumably those left in the

:26:47. > :26:49.party... In terms of being a party of the union, the Conservatives,

:26:50. > :26:57.according to the people of Scotland, are seen more as a party of the

:26:58. > :26:58.union of another Labour Party. The squeeze and the constitutional

:26:59. > :27:03.issue, I do not see where they go from here in terms of policies.

:27:04. > :27:06.issue, I do not see where they go my opinion they put forward a

:27:07. > :27:12.comfortably left of centre traditional Labour manifesto. The

:27:13. > :27:19.message was not getting through. Voters migrated to the SNP and have

:27:20. > :27:20.stayed with the SNP. It also is to me that in future, the very near

:27:21. > :27:26.future, Scotland will continue to be dominated by the constitutional

:27:27. > :27:30.question. Where does Labour go from here? It was good that she is

:27:31. > :27:35.essentially admitted the strategy was wrong. You have to be whether

:27:36. > :27:40.people are. With the Referendum campaign, we are fewer than two

:27:41. > :27:44.years away and it still dominates. What's the Labour Party did was

:27:45. > :27:50.repeat the mistakes of the general election last year. Instead of

:27:51. > :27:56.chasing the 55% winning the Referendum, largely middle-class,

:27:57. > :27:58.they decided to chase that part of the 45% who had abandoned the Labour

:27:59. > :28:03.Party. That was a mistake and it was repeated. It would be very easy to

:28:04. > :28:05.be the party of the union and say a few are serious about defending it,

:28:06. > :28:11.do not vote Conservative, vote Labour. They need to get back to

:28:12. > :28:17.that position. And to be fair to Kezia Dugdale, she has only been in

:28:18. > :28:21.the job eight months. She needs to get her own team and agenda and then

:28:22. > :28:26.I think the party can be properly reformed in the way it could not be

:28:27. > :28:29.after 2011 because we have the Referendum to deal with. We have

:28:30. > :28:33.talked a lot about Scottish Labour and the Tory revival but what about

:28:34. > :28:40.the SNP? We are talking about a possible coalition? If you look at

:28:41. > :28:46.first past the post winning more seats than 2011 with a slightly

:28:47. > :28:49.larger share of the boat, that is pretty extraordinary by any measure

:28:50. > :28:56.for a party seeking a third term. I think what she would like is to get

:28:57. > :29:00.to the job of governing. She talked about major ambitions for education,

:29:01. > :29:07.closing the gap between rich and poor and investing more than

:29:08. > :29:09.inflation increases in the National Health Service. She wanted to get

:29:10. > :29:14.her own mandate. She has got that, by any standard. Extraordinary

:29:15. > :29:21.levels of support, even a bit about 2011. She has her own mandate and a

:29:22. > :29:22.radical policy agenda and would like to get her team assembled and get on

:29:23. > :29:29.the job as soon possible. Let us know your thoughts on any of this.

:29:30. > :29:34.It is a much more interesting election than a lot of people

:29:35. > :29:39.expected. Talk to us on social media. The hash tag is SB 16. We

:29:40. > :29:44.will hear from Kezia Dugdale in a moment. We can talk to Patrick

:29:45. > :29:47.Harvie from the Green party. Congratulations on your real

:29:48. > :29:52.election. Green is currently sitting on four MSP 's. Twice as much

:29:53. > :29:53.election. Green is currently sitting last parliament. Do you think you

:29:54. > :29:58.will end up as the fourth placed party at Holyrood, displacing the

:29:59. > :30:13.Liberal Democrats? Wightman P Andy Wightman P We hope

:30:14. > :30:14.so. I will hopefully be heading west to the west of Scot declaration in

:30:15. > :30:20.time for that in a few minutes time. What is clear, is that we have

:30:21. > :30:20.managed to gain huge momentum, certainly in Glasgow where we

:30:21. > :30:26.managed to gain huge momentum, second in Glasgow Kelvin, that is

:30:27. > :30:27.the closest we have come to winning a constituency, and I am told that

:30:28. > :30:33.it is the closest that anybody has come to challenging the SNP in any

:30:34. > :30:35.constituency in Glasgow. So, we have gained momentum, we have gained a

:30:36. > :30:40.lot of profile I think during this campaign, and we have gained

:30:41. > :30:40.lot of profile I think during this expertise and the experience of

:30:41. > :30:47.getting our campaigners and volunteers out there on a scale that

:30:48. > :30:48.we have never seen before, so, it is momentum that will continue to

:30:49. > :30:55.we have never seen before, so, it is on. No doubt the SNP have won this

:30:56. > :30:58.election an won their third term but it is not clear that the party will

:30:59. > :31:07.win that overall majority, if they fall short, how closely would Greens

:31:08. > :31:11.be prepared to work with the SNP to support them in office? Well, I

:31:12. > :31:14.think you have access to more of the numb -- number crunching than me, I

:31:15. > :31:21.will have to see what the result looks like, everybody will have to

:31:22. > :31:22.in the cold light of day, it is daytime already, it's the morning,

:31:23. > :31:26.we are going to have to look at the results once we have had a bit of

:31:27. > :31:31.time to digest them. What we have said is we bring constructive

:31:32. > :31:34.challenge to bear, in many areas, said is we bring constructive

:31:35. > :31:38.Greens constructive challenge, being constructive where we can, giving

:31:39. > :31:42.fair credit where it is due but pushing the SNP to go further when

:31:43. > :31:46.they are not going far enough. That is the attitude that has got result,

:31:47. > :31:51.it has got them to move ground on things like fuel poverty and energy

:31:52. > :31:55.efficiency, on protecting tenants in the private rented sector and indeed

:31:56. > :32:00.on issues like land reform. We will continue to do that, and whatever

:32:01. > :32:06.the overall balance of MSPs in the next session of the Scottish

:32:07. > :32:07.Parliament is, we will continue to bring that challenge to bear,

:32:08. > :32:10.because we know it gets results. It is more effective than standing in

:32:11. > :32:17.the chamber shouting and ranting as though tefrg SNP do is terrible.

:32:18. > :32:19.That is not rational and doesn't get result, The Green approach is more

:32:20. > :32:27.constructive and will always be willing to sit down and talk to find

:32:28. > :32:31.out where there are genuine areas of common ground while

:32:32. > :32:36.out where there are genuine areas of challenge them. Thank you very much

:32:37. > :32:37.indeed. It is sounds like any arrangement that may be required

:32:38. > :32:38.would come at a price from a Green arrangement that may be required

:32:39. > :32:44.point of view. Let us cross the country and go back to the Edinburgh

:32:45. > :32:47.count and talk with the Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale,

:32:48. > :32:54.congratulations on your re-election but there is no way of Varnishing

:32:55. > :32:58.this, putting a gloss on it, it's a disaster for Labour tonight. Morning

:32:59. > :33:01.Glenn, yes, it's a very bad night for the Labour Party. There is no

:33:02. > :33:05.question about that. I think you heard some of what I had to say when

:33:06. > :33:08.I was elected there about what I think has happened overnight. I will

:33:09. > :33:13.have a better sense of analysis for your over the weekend once I have

:33:14. > :33:17.had some sleep. There is no doubt the constitution has dominated this

:33:18. > :33:21.election campaign, what we have seen across the country is areas of great

:33:22. > :33:28.strength for the Yes campaign, and areas where there is is a strong no

:33:29. > :33:30.the Tories have benefitted from that. Throughout this campaign I

:33:31. > :33:33.have tried to make case of moving on from the referendum argument of the

:33:34. > :33:39.past. Bear a fairer Scot with the votes of people who voted yes and

:33:40. > :33:45.no, despite being proud to have voted no myself. Paul Sinclair, was

:33:46. > :33:49.he right to argue that you had chased the wrong group of voters,

:33:50. > :33:54.those who were perhaps left leaning and left the Labour Party for the

:33:55. > :34:01.SNP instead of sticking by middle class no voters who stuck with

:34:02. > :34:05.Labour? I think in fairness to Paul, somebody who I have a high regard

:34:06. > :34:08.for, I could have done that, that would have been a short-term,

:34:09. > :34:13.shortlived strategy. It is the the long-term Ben fillet of Scot to move

:34:14. > :34:18.on from the referendum benefits of past. That is why I wanted to build

:34:19. > :34:27.a coalition of voters who voted yes and no, to tackle fairness and

:34:28. > :34:28.inequality in this country, that is why the tax reforms I put for wad I

:34:29. > :34:30.felt were important, to raise the money we need to stop the cuts

:34:31. > :34:35.because the reality of tonight's result, is regardless of the way the

:34:36. > :34:40.cards fall in the end, Scotland is faced with ?3 billion worth of cuts

:34:41. > :34:50.yet to come, unless we are prepared to use the new power to make

:34:51. > :34:50.different choices. That means a lot of vulnerable people are going to

:34:51. > :34:56.face further authority -- austerity. That has not been the choice Scot

:34:57. > :35:01.has settled for. Thank you for battling to be heard over the

:35:02. > :35:08.dismantling effort. Will you stay as Labour leader, no matter what? No

:35:09. > :35:08.matter what. 100%, I am remaining leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

:35:09. > :35:15.Will that be up to you? I took over leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

:35:16. > :35:18.this job in challenging times, I said at the time that I was on a

:35:19. > :35:22.mission to renew the Scottish Labour Party, that I had a plan of how do

:35:23. > :35:27.that, I asked my colleagues to step behind me with that five year vision

:35:28. > :35:31.for the future of the party and they did so, with 72% of the vote. I have

:35:32. > :35:34.a huge mandate to lead this party, from all the conversations I have

:35:35. > :35:38.had with colleagues tonight, I continue to have a huge mandate to

:35:39. > :35:42.lead this party. Thank you for speaking to us live from the count

:35:43. > :35:46.in Edinburgh, what is left of it. Kezia Dugdale, leader of the

:35:47. > :35:50.Scottish Labour Party. It has gone 6.30. 6.35 in case you are clock

:35:51. > :35:55.watching and getting ready for work. Let us bring in our political panel.

:35:56. > :36:03.We will start with the Deputy Leader of the SNP. You have been round long

:36:04. > :36:03.enough to have lost as well as won. Do you feel anything for Kezia

:36:04. > :36:08.Dugdale and her colleagues this evening I do. This morning. I do. I

:36:09. > :36:13.feel for everyone who has lost a seat. Because you know, whether we

:36:14. > :36:14.agree or disagree, if people go into politics to do public service, to do

:36:15. > :36:19.good, however they see it, and they politics to do public service, to do

:36:20. > :36:24.get wiped out because of a swing, of course you have to feel for them.

:36:25. > :36:28.But at that point, the sympathy stops because Kezia said... I

:36:29. > :36:35.thought there would be a but. She says she wanted to move on from the

:36:36. > :36:37.referendum. I understand that, but it is too soon for Labour simply to

:36:38. > :36:42.say, we didn't really go to bed with Tory, we didn't do a deal, we didn't

:36:43. > :36:48.say nasty things about Scot, let us move on. I am not sure it is the end

:36:49. > :36:52.game for Labour yet in terms of public saying we are not ready to

:36:53. > :36:59.forgive you yet. So it could get worse before it gets better, if it

:37:00. > :37:01.does? I had, I was in the Glasgow count for part of the evening

:37:02. > :37:04.tonight. I saw the look on Glasgow Labour councillors's faces. I think

:37:05. > :37:10.they know what might happen next year, if they don't get their act

:37:11. > :37:17.together. I am going to going to come to Carly in a moment. Martin,

:37:18. > :37:20.was your diagnosis, what has gone wrong for Labour in this election,

:37:21. > :37:23.after a series of bad elections I think you heard it from Kez there,

:37:24. > :37:27.we ran a campaign, which I think was, you know, in my view a strong

:37:28. > :37:33.campaign but the country isn't ready for it. A strong

:37:34. > :37:38.wrong campaign. The country isn't ready for the arguments we wanted to

:37:39. > :37:39.put, so we wanted to move beyond the referendum, that clearly hasn't been

:37:40. > :37:44.successful this evening and we can see that in the results. Now, over

:37:45. > :37:48.the next FIA years it there will be a responsibility on the SNP, if

:37:49. > :37:50.there is a minority Government or a coalition, to, we will be holding

:37:51. > :37:55.them to account on the same issues we put forward in this campaign, as

:37:56. > :38:04.Kez said the ?3 billion of cut we expect to see and using the powers

:38:05. > :38:05.of the Parliament in order to alleviate the pain we are already

:38:06. > :38:10.seeing communities across Scotland, so you know, it is the SNP's victory

:38:11. > :38:13.this evening, that is something I congratulate them for, and we are

:38:14. > :38:17.still obviously seeing results coming in on the regional list, but

:38:18. > :38:23.this campaign has been you know a campaign put forward a solid

:38:24. > :38:26.argument but it is one the country wasn't ready for. We haven't moved

:38:27. > :38:29.on from the constitutional debate we had in 2014. Let us see what

:38:30. > :38:33.on from the constitutional debate we has to say on that. Are we still

:38:34. > :38:40.witnessing post referendum politics? We certainly are. I think we are

:38:41. > :38:46.seeing extraordinary position of Labour losing to everyone,

:38:47. > :38:48.everywhere. They are losing on the left, to the SNP, and in particular

:38:49. > :38:53.in the west of Scotland but they are losing across the country to the

:38:54. > :38:59.Conservatives, on the unionist side of that equation. It looks very

:39:00. > :39:05.difficult for them to find a way back, once they are being squeezed

:39:06. > :39:07.on both dimensions of Scottish politics, left, right and union

:39:08. > :39:13.versus independence. No matter what, Kezia Dugdale says,

:39:14. > :39:19.she will remain as Labour Partier, do you think that is the case, is it

:39:20. > :39:23.up to her to make that decision? Self evidently it is not up to her,

:39:24. > :39:28.if that if there a serious challenge and the party votes otherwise, she

:39:29. > :39:30.is gone. I don't think there will be a serious challenge. I think she

:39:31. > :39:34.will be left as the incumbent because the party has to have a far

:39:35. > :39:40.more fundamental rethink than just changing the leader again. I have

:39:41. > :39:43.lost count of the number they have had in cent year, I suspect they

:39:44. > :39:50.have too. It was interesting she said she tried to move on, and it

:39:51. > :39:50.wasn't possible. The party was going said she tried to move on, and it

:39:51. > :39:55.in a different direction from the electorate. If the party is going in

:39:56. > :40:01.a different direction, guess what? You lose. We are waiting for results

:40:02. > :40:08.from the south of Scotland, why are we wait something Cameron can

:40:09. > :40:11.perhaps tell us. What is going on in Kelso? Well, I have to say, there is

:40:12. > :40:16.a naushlen over in the room. The counting seems to have stoppedches I

:40:17. > :40:20.can see a huddle over in one corner of the hall, with the Scottish

:40:21. > :40:25.Borders Council official. There is an expectation but to be honest I

:40:26. > :40:31.think that is that John Lamont is going to hold Ettrick down here, I

:40:32. > :40:36.spoke to a well placed source within the Scottish National Party hand

:40:37. > :40:38.they were adamant he has won it. John Lamont wouldn't concede it

:40:39. > :40:43.himself. He plays his cards close to his chest, but they are looking

:40:44. > :40:49.pretty relaxed. The Conservatives just now, but yes, we are waiting. I

:40:50. > :40:54.suppose, the Scottish Borders Council did anticipate roughly this

:40:55. > :40:59.time in the morning. You are talking 125 polling station, 400 box, they

:41:00. > :41:01.are counts four seats here, two constituency, two list, they did

:41:02. > :41:11.anticipate this would take this length of time I am afraid. How much

:41:12. > :41:20.longer? I have no idea. LAUGHTER. Ask a stupid question, get

:41:21. > :41:24.a stupid answer. We will be back to you when you have more news.

:41:25. > :41:30.I thought something was happening but possibly not. Sorry. It was

:41:31. > :41:37.entertaining nonetheless. Live from Kelso and we are waiting for that

:41:38. > :41:42.Ettrick result, and at least one other from the south of Scotland.

:41:43. > :41:46.The indications there that the Conservatives would hold that seat

:41:47. > :41:49.and that would add some extra icing and a couple of cherries to what is

:41:50. > :41:56.already a very good night for the Tories. It certainly is. I think we

:41:57. > :42:01.have seen the recovery of the Conservative Party from the

:42:02. > :42:05.disasters of the 1990s, in this election. They have won

:42:06. > :42:12.significantly from Labour. Interesting the look at the North

:42:13. > :42:14.East of Scotland as well, where the tartan Tory, who, who went to the

:42:15. > :42:19.SNP, appear to be moving back, a pattern you can see across parts of

:42:20. > :42:25.rural Scotland outside the North East. The Conservatives look to have

:42:26. > :42:29.a social base again in Scotland, which they lost.

:42:30. > :42:34.Brian Taylor, for years the Conservatives, the brand for the

:42:35. > :42:38.party has been seen by some as being toxic, Murdo Fraser reelected

:42:39. > :42:45.tonight stood for the leadership calling for the party to be torn up

:42:46. > :42:47.and for a new centre-right force, is that no longer necessary? He was

:42:48. > :42:51.probably right at the time. Given what subsequently happened to the

:42:52. > :42:59.Conservatives, I would guess that idea has probably gone the way. I

:43:00. > :43:01.was struck by remarks that Jackson made about the nature of the

:43:02. > :43:04.Conservative approach again, you know, referring to Annie well,

:43:05. > :43:10.wasn't that a great interview she did, about the pitch that she is

:43:11. > :43:17.making. The Conservatives are not back in fully kicking, they are

:43:18. > :43:22.still the only party since universal suffrage to achieve a popular

:43:23. > :43:28.majority in 195, but, and despite all the thing, they didn't do it

:43:29. > :43:35.last year, they were only short. Governing, the SNP are currently on,

:43:36. > :43:36.what are they on? 58 seats, Christine Graham will take the

:43:37. > :43:41.what are they on? 58 seats, Midlothian one. They haven't got any

:43:42. > :43:45.on the list so far. They might pick one in the North East. If they fall

:43:46. > :43:53.short, they will they form a coalition? Not a chance, 2007,

:43:54. > :43:57.remember, three days of anguish negotiations with the two Greens

:43:58. > :44:01.produced a concordat, that was to be about confidence and supply, it fell

:44:02. > :44:07.apart when The Greens refused to vote for the SNP budget. I think the

:44:08. > :44:09.same would happen again, this time. I don't think the SNP would want to

:44:10. > :44:13.be in a coalition with The Greens at all, given their stance on tax, and

:44:14. > :44:18.I think that the SNP, if they fall short will govern as a minority and

:44:19. > :44:23.seek to do a deal on annual basis with regard to the budget. Who

:44:24. > :44:30.knows? It could be the return of the Conservatives, who were so

:44:31. > :44:32.influential during that 2007-11 Parliament in negotiating concession

:44:33. > :44:36.over the budget. I am not sure they would be Amin to believe that

:44:37. > :44:41.arrangement in this coming Parliament if you are the main party

:44:42. > :44:45.of opposition, would that be a fair reading? We will be standing at the

:44:46. > :44:49.principle party of opposition to the Scottish National Party. No deals?

:44:50. > :44:54.No. What I think is extraordinary, is none of the opinion polls before

:44:55. > :44:59.the election had us winning two seats in Glasgow, had us winning two

:45:00. > :45:03.seats in the Lothian if you take into account Ruth Davidson's as

:45:04. > :45:08.well. That is quite a transformation, if the SNP now falls

:45:09. > :45:19.short of a majority, I think Nicola Sturgeon's gift of deciding when and

:45:20. > :45:19.if there will be another referendum in Scotland will have been stripped

:45:20. > :45:23.from her. Let me add this. If they are short of an overall majority

:45:24. > :45:28.there is no principle opposition party, because it doesn't require

:45:29. > :45:34.any party as a single party, even if it is 20, 25, 8 or nine, it requires

:45:35. > :45:36.a simple majority for any legislation for the budget. When I

:45:37. > :45:38.was the finance spokesman in the Scottish Parliament I sat down with

:45:39. > :45:40.was the finance spokesman in the John Swinney, it was after the

:45:41. > :45:52.Conservatives because they were keen to vote for the SNP budget.

:45:53. > :45:58.It changes the nature of the parliament. Would you look issue by

:45:59. > :46:01.issue and do deals with all parties? I am assuming Nicola becomes the

:46:02. > :46:07.First Minister. A Parliamentary group will come to a decision on how

:46:08. > :46:13.to proceed and the best way. But can I say, Jeremy, that is absolute

:46:14. > :46:15.nonsense. If they had support initially to form a majority

:46:16. > :46:19.administration, of course is a principled opposition to ask the

:46:20. > :46:23.questions. I think the Liberal party are sitting on the same number of

:46:24. > :46:31.seats as the Green party and they cannot suddenly pretend... I sat

:46:32. > :46:38.down with John Swinney as the finance spokesman each year and we

:46:39. > :46:45.had this process. You do not need the numbers to get the majority. It

:46:46. > :46:55.changes the dynamic... We want to get a result from the next count.

:46:56. > :47:04.1700 sexy six. Scottish Liberal Democrats, 2551. John Hammond,

:47:05. > :47:07.Scottish Conservative Unionist Party, 18200 and 57. Paul

:47:08. > :47:16.Wheelhouse, Scottish National Party, 10500 and 21. John Lamont has been

:47:17. > :47:20.elected in the Scottish Parliament as the member for the Roxburgh and

:47:21. > :47:23.Berwickshire constituency. A number of papers were rejected and not

:47:24. > :47:33.counted at this election, as follows, 88. John Lamont re-elected

:47:34. > :47:35.as the Conservative MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire. I think I saw him

:47:36. > :47:41.release a little breath of relief. But it was not even slightly close.

:47:42. > :47:46.Winning with over 18,000 votes. Beating Paul Wheelhouse. A minister

:47:47. > :47:51.in the Scottish Government. It looks like he is out of the Scottish

:47:52. > :47:55.Parliament, albeit that he is on the SNP list but fairly far down. He

:47:56. > :48:02.finishes in second place with just over 10,000 votes. Jim Hume also

:48:03. > :48:15.standing third in the list. Barry Cunningham, four. The turnout was

:48:16. > :48:21.61%. The Conservatives taking 55%. Compared to last time, the

:48:22. > :48:28.Conservatives are up by ten. Labour down by five. And a quick look at

:48:29. > :48:35.the swing from the SNP to the Conservatives. 2%. The Conservatives

:48:36. > :48:40.hold. There is only one more constituency seat to declare. The

:48:41. > :48:47.picture overall with Jackie. One more to go. A very successful night

:48:48. > :48:49.for the SNP. As expected they have gone ahead in constituency seats,

:48:50. > :49:00.winning 58 out of 72 declared so far. It has been a good night for

:49:01. > :49:00.the Scottish Conservatives. Not just there. They have added two

:49:01. > :49:04.constituencies and from the list and they could emerge as the main

:49:05. > :49:08.opposition party. It could be the best performance north of the border

:49:09. > :49:13.since 1992. The Liberal Democrats held on to Orkney and Shetland and

:49:14. > :49:18.added another couple to their constituency tally. The Green party

:49:19. > :49:22.has four list seats so far and could be kingmakers if the SNP do not

:49:23. > :49:30.achieve the overall majority. Patrick Harvie said it had been a

:49:31. > :49:34.good night for them. We have managed to gain huge momentum. Certainly in

:49:35. > :49:39.Glasgow, we came second in Glasgow, Kelvin. The closest we have come to

:49:40. > :49:42.winning a constituency. I am told it is the closest anybody has come to

:49:43. > :49:48.challenging the SNP in any constituency in Glasgow. We have

:49:49. > :49:53.gained momentum and a lot a profile in this campaign and certainly

:49:54. > :49:55.gained the expertise and experience of getting campaigners and

:49:56. > :49:57.volunteers out there on a scale we have never seen before. It is

:49:58. > :50:02.momentum which we will continue have never seen before. It is

:50:03. > :50:07.building on. A dismal night for Labour. The party losing ground to

:50:08. > :50:11.the SNP and the Conservatives. The party leader Kezia Dugdale was the

:50:12. > :50:13.only main party leader not to win a constituency seat, but who will

:50:14. > :50:18.only main party leader not to win a return to Holyrood courtesy of the

:50:19. > :50:24.regional list seat. This is what she said. This election was always going

:50:25. > :50:30.to be tough for the Scottish Labour Party, just one year after the

:50:31. > :50:32.painful general election defeat. But I am proud that our campaign rose to

:50:33. > :50:36.the challenge of offering an alternative vision for what could be

:50:37. > :50:41.done in the new and more powerful parliament. She says she will not

:50:42. > :50:46.stand down as leader of the Scottish Labour Party. We can take a look at

:50:47. > :50:51.some of the front pages this fine morning. Daily record, five more

:50:52. > :51:00.years. Nicola is on the front of the Edinburgh evening News. With a

:51:01. > :51:00.beaming Ruth Davidson. And on Twitter, Nicola

:51:01. > :51:02.beaming Ruth Davidson. And on congratulated Leanne Wood on winning

:51:03. > :51:11.Rhondda for Clyde Camry. Thank you very much, Jackie. We are waiting

:51:12. > :51:17.for one more constituency declaration in the Scottish

:51:18. > :51:18.Parliament election. We have got three of the regional results

:51:19. > :51:21.already declared with the rest are still to come, completing the

:51:22. > :51:27.Scottish Parliament picture. We can see what it looks like right now

:51:28. > :51:32.with David Henderson. It is a good moment to take stock. The SNP had

:51:33. > :51:37.shown themselves to be the dominant force in Scottish politics in recent

:51:38. > :51:41.years this -- and this morning there are close to a majority in the

:51:42. > :51:44.Scottish Parliament. It would be a story tribe. But they need to make

:51:45. > :51:55.it over the finishing line. -- it would be a historic triumph. This is

:51:56. > :51:58.how the parliament chamber is filling up. Nearly all the

:51:59. > :52:05.constituencies. And three of the regions have now declared the

:52:06. > :52:10.results. Many MSP 's will occupy these seats for the next five years

:52:11. > :52:18.and have been confirmed. A large chunk of SNP yellow. They are on 58

:52:19. > :52:21.seats. They need 65, remember, for a majority. The Conservatives are over

:52:22. > :52:28.seats. They need 65, remember, for a here, currently in second place,

:52:29. > :52:32.with 16. On the other side of the SNP, here is Labour. Just 11 seats

:52:33. > :52:39.so far. The Liberal Democrats and the Green party have got four each.

:52:40. > :52:46.Many people thought and SNP majority was the most likely outcome of the

:52:47. > :52:50.election. But as we can see that is not guaranteed yet. Let's look at

:52:51. > :52:55.why. Let's look at the change in the party seat allocation, compared to

:52:56. > :53:02.the last election. The SNP has gained six seats. The Tories have

:53:03. > :53:07.gained four. The Liberal Democrats, two. Labour have had a terrible

:53:08. > :53:12.night, losing a lot of ground. 12 seats down in total. Let's have a

:53:13. > :53:21.night, losing a lot of ground. 12 look at where the SNP have gained

:53:22. > :53:26.ground tonight. Here we go. Winning at the expense of labour. Right

:53:27. > :53:32.here. These yellow flashing seats. They now belong to the SNP. They

:53:33. > :53:38.were Labour Party seats. All through the central belt. Most of them in

:53:39. > :53:48.the West of Scotland. But the SNP have also lost some seats as well,

:53:49. > :53:54.five in all, three in Edinburgh, one in Fife, and one in Aberdeenshire.

:53:55. > :53:58.They are now lashing. This is the state of play at this stage. One

:53:59. > :54:11.constituency yet to declare, Midlothian 's. -- Midlothian South,

:54:12. > :54:20.Tweedale and Lauderdale. These are in grey on the regional result grid

:54:21. > :54:24.here. The SNP need seven more MSPs to get a majority. Will they get

:54:25. > :54:29.them? Will they need the support of other parties in the chamber? Could

:54:30. > :54:37.it be the Green party? We will find out. Back to you. Thanks very much,

:54:38. > :54:44.David. Let's go to Aberdeen. Stephen, what have you got for us?

:54:45. > :54:48.We are still waiting for the North East regional list to be declared.

:54:49. > :54:53.Estimated at about half past seven, we are told. I am joined by Alex

:54:54. > :54:57.Johnston, top of the list for the Conservatives. You also had a

:54:58. > :55:06.constituency count. How did you get on? I missed it by 2500. Tell us

:55:07. > :55:12.about the revival of the Tories, winning constituencies. We are

:55:13. > :55:12.enjoying the opportunity to go back and win constituencies, winning

:55:13. > :55:20.several tonight and one in the North East, taking West Aberdeenshire.

:55:21. > :55:23.That is a tremendous step forward. We have been strong in the

:55:24. > :55:30.north-east but not had a constituency. We have got one now

:55:31. > :55:31.and a genuine foothold and we will use that to make progress. Yellow

:55:32. > :55:34.macro West Aberdeenshire is interesting because the Labour Party

:55:35. > :55:40.have never done well here. Where are you getting votes from? I think

:55:41. > :55:46.there is a strong conservative vote which has drifted in several

:55:47. > :55:53.directions over generations. We are focusing minds back on corporate use

:55:54. > :55:53.and people that are instinctively conservative wants to vote

:55:54. > :56:00.Conservative. Are the Tartan Tories? conservative wants to vote

:56:01. > :56:11.We are a distinctively Scottish party. Ruth Davidson has set out to

:56:12. > :56:12.achieve with that. We are genuinely Scottish people, a Scottish party

:56:13. > :56:24.with Scottish values and a Scottish job to do. That is why the people of

:56:25. > :56:25.Scotland have realised the Conservatives can do a job for them

:56:26. > :56:25.and have started voting for them in this election and increasing

:56:26. > :56:30.and have started voting for them in numbers. Do you expect to stand --

:56:31. > :56:35.spend most of your time answering for decisions in the Tory government

:56:36. > :56:42.in Westminster? That is something we have not often had to do. You have

:56:43. > :56:46.complained about that to me in the past! We are distinctively Scottish.

:56:47. > :56:56.And we have the right, if required, to make different decisions about

:56:57. > :56:56.how to implement policies in Scotland. Ruth Davidson has taken

:56:57. > :57:01.that power and produced a manifesto design for Scotland and will work

:57:02. > :57:04.for Scotland. She will provide the opposition which has been lacking in

:57:05. > :57:10.Scotland. The SNP tonight will probably end up as the largest party

:57:11. > :57:16.and will continue governing but will have a strong opposition with the

:57:17. > :57:17.Conservative Party which will actually try and change the

:57:18. > :57:24.direction. Alex, thank you very much. They are hoping for two, maybe

:57:25. > :57:28.three seats when the North East list is declared. We expect that, it is

:57:29. > :57:31.three seats when the North East list estimated at about half past seven.

:57:32. > :57:40.STUDIO: Thank you very much. The North East list is one of five to

:57:41. > :57:44.declare. 35 MSPs to come and one constituency coming as well. At this

:57:45. > :57:51.stage it is clear the SNP has won the election, with a historic third

:57:52. > :57:53.term. It is less clear if they will win it with an overall majority.

:57:54. > :57:58.They might find themselves having to make deals to get business done in

:57:59. > :58:01.the next Parliament. The Conservatives are looking

:58:02. > :58:06.increasingly likely to be the main opposition party, displacing labour

:58:07. > :58:08.and still a battle between the Liberal Democrats and the Greens for

:58:09. > :58:13.fourth place. Live now to Holyrood and the Scottish Parliament. For the

:58:14. > :58:16.first time this morning. Good morning, Shelley. Good morning. It

:58:17. > :58:21.is a lovely morning morning, Shelley. Good morning. It

:58:22. > :58:25.in Edinburgh. This is obviously where a lot of the new people and

:58:26. > :58:30.familiar faces will be coming on Monday morning to start settling

:58:31. > :58:31.into their jobs for the next five years. We do not know exactly how

:58:32. > :58:37.the chamber will look at the moment. years. We do not know exactly how

:58:38. > :58:45.But to discuss the results as they stand is Alan from Edinburgh

:58:46. > :58:47.University. Obviously a very good night for the SNP. But maybe not

:58:48. > :58:53.enough to form a majority government? It has been a very good

:58:54. > :58:58.night. We just do not yet know how good. We do not know they will get

:58:59. > :59:02.the magic 65 numbers. We definitely know they will be in government but

:59:03. > :59:05.we do not know the form of the government, whether it is a majority

:59:06. > :59:10.get mad or some of minority government. The battle is for second

:59:11. > :59:17.place. List results still coming in. It looks like a good night for the

:59:18. > :59:19.Conservatives. That is right. They had a next night and picked up seats

:59:20. > :59:25.they may be did not expect. Ruth Davidson had a very disciplined

:59:26. > :59:26.campaign about presenting herself about a credible opposition and

:59:27. > :59:33.presenting herself as a Unionist and alternative opposition to the SNP. I

:59:34. > :59:35.think the Conservatives will be pleased with the result. Especially

:59:36. > :59:40.if, as looks likely, they come ahead of the Labour Party and become the

:59:41. > :59:46.main opposition party. We have heard Kezia Dugdale say that she thinks

:59:47. > :59:53.they have lost out overnight because they tried to take on and move the

:59:54. > :59:54.constitutional debate on from the Referendum and talk about other

:59:55. > :00:01.issues. Do you think that is what these results are telling us? I

:00:02. > :00:01.think it would be wrong to read into it as purely a problem of that

:00:02. > :00:08.election, it goes much further back to 2007, failing to renew themselves

:00:09. > :00:10.in opposition. There has also been discussion of short-term factors

:00:11. > :00:17.about what is right to place themselves to the left of the SNP by

:00:18. > :00:24.advocating increased taxes? I think that is a debate they need to have.

:00:25. > :00:30.It is looking like a good night for The Green, they could become

:00:31. > :00:36.influential if there is a minority Government. If it's a minority

:00:37. > :00:37.Government, The Greens will want to have influence in

:00:38. > :00:39.Government, The Greens will want to committee, in Parliament as well,

:00:40. > :00:45.and The Greens, what we don't know yet, is whether they will come ahead

:00:46. > :00:47.of the Liberal Democrats as well, which would be a good result for the

:00:48. > :00:53.Scottish Green Party. What night to you think it is is for the Liberal

:00:54. > :00:57.Democrats? They have hung on to some seats, it has been a good night for

:00:58. > :01:01.Willie Rennie who has won his seat. It shows the Liberal Democrats fight

:01:02. > :01:04.a good campaign, they can hang on, so I think it could have been worse

:01:05. > :01:08.for the Liberal Democrats and it has gone reasonably well for them. Any

:01:09. > :01:17.big surprises so far as you have looked at the results. I know you

:01:18. > :01:19.have been up all night Theres have been pleasing results. Willie

:01:20. > :01:23.Rennie, also for the Conservatives winning back Eastwood, so a long

:01:24. > :01:28.period, was a traditional Tory seat. To win that back has been a

:01:29. > :01:32.personally good for Jackson Carlaw and the Conservatives as well. A

:01:33. > :01:37.Tory seat, a natural Tory seat they have managed to win back. We haven't

:01:38. > :01:40.heard anything about Ukip, have they just not really figured in this

:01:41. > :01:45.election? We haven't heard anything about Ukip. I haven't looked at the

:01:46. > :01:48.latest figures but it appears they might not get a seat. That is in

:01:49. > :01:55.contrast to Wales where they are done much better in the selection.

:01:56. > :01:56.All right. That is it for now. From the Scottish Parliament in

:01:57. > :01:59.Edinburgh. Thank you. We will be back to you

:02:00. > :02:10.throughout, the remainder of the programme. It has just gone 7.00 on

:02:11. > :02:13.Friday 6th May. It is clear at this stage the SNP has won far less clear

:02:14. > :02:17.that they will finish with an overall majority, which may mean

:02:18. > :02:20.deal making for Nicola Sturgeon, and her team, as they move towards a

:02:21. > :02:27.deal making for Nicola Sturgeon, and third term in Government, for the

:02:28. > :02:29.SNP. Probably no deals with the Conservatives, they seem to be

:02:30. > :02:35.emerging as the main party of opposition, having displaced the

:02:36. > :02:38.Labour Party, pushing them into third place. Kezia Dugdale, the

:02:39. > :02:42.Labour leader, has conceded the election and congratulated Nicola

:02:43. > :02:49.Sturgeon but made clear that she is no intention of giving up as Labour

:02:50. > :02:56.leader. Let us go to Dingwall. In Dingwall, you can see that there is

:02:57. > :03:02.some movement, as we move towards the regional list declaration for

:03:03. > :03:06.the Highlands and islands, that appears to be the Conservative group

:03:07. > :03:11.of candidates and activist for the high land list. It is one of five

:03:12. > :03:19.regional lists still to declare, we have had three so far, five still to

:03:20. > :03:26.go. In each of the regions, celebrations, where there are

:03:27. > :03:32.winners and obviously commiserations would be MSPs lose out. So the

:03:33. > :03:38.Highlands and islands declaration is imminent, news of what is about to

:03:39. > :03:41.be declared appears to be filtering out to the candidates and their

:03:42. > :03:48.tales at the count in Dingwall. Let us bring in our political panel,

:03:49. > :03:53.and we have a new member, a new representative for the Scottish

:03:54. > :03:55.Labour Party. Anas Sarwar who has made a political come back, you lost

:03:56. > :04:00.your seat in Glasgow at the Westminster election a year ago but

:04:01. > :04:05.you are back as a regional MSP for Glasgow. Good to be back? I am the

:04:06. > :04:09.youngest veteran in politics, in terms of some of the things that is

:04:10. > :04:12.happening in the politics. It looks challenging, but for me, it's a huge

:04:13. > :04:19.honour to represent the city in which I was born, and brought up and

:04:20. > :04:21.a huge honour to try and working alongside my other Labour colleagues

:04:22. > :04:25.to rebuild the Labour Party and movement You have been a deputy

:04:26. > :04:33.leader of the party in the past, you have been through a few scrapes in

:04:34. > :04:34.that role and as an MSP you have won and you have lost, but tonight, it

:04:35. > :04:37.that role and as an MSP you have won is a special kind of defeat for the

:04:38. > :04:41.Labour Party, I mean, this is the worst ever result in a national

:04:42. > :04:50.election in Scotland, as far as we can tell. How on earth to you start

:04:51. > :04:51.rebuilding from here? Last year was obviously difficult for us, this

:04:52. > :04:53.year it is no different. What makes it different this time from last

:04:54. > :04:57.year, is I don't think we need to go it different this time from last

:04:58. > :05:04.through some of the things we had to go through last year, in terms of

:05:05. > :05:05.looking at our policy programme, looking at what we stood for, who we

:05:06. > :05:09.stood with. Kezia has made that clear in this election campaign, I

:05:10. > :05:12.think we have a very strong manifesto on which we can build in

:05:13. > :05:17.terms of opposition to the nationalist and to the Tories in

:05:18. > :05:19.this Parliament. You think you fought the right campaign with the

:05:20. > :05:22.right policies? I think, so look, I think the challenge we have, is I

:05:23. > :05:29.think Kezia Dugdale was saying the right things and the Labour Party

:05:30. > :05:29.was saying the right things, I think the honest reality is, that people

:05:30. > :05:32.aren't willing to listen to us at the moment. That is harder truth, I

:05:33. > :05:35.think for the Labour Party, in this election campaign, we have to win

:05:36. > :05:40.the right to be listened to again, that is not happening in this

:05:41. > :05:42.election. listened and didn't like what you

:05:43. > :05:50.had to say In the polls don't show that. The polls show you got beaten.

:05:51. > :05:51.The polls clearly show we got beaten. Beaten. I am not trying to

:05:52. > :05:55.negate that, if you look at the polls round the policy and which

:05:56. > :06:00.were popular, which weren't, clearly there was popularity for the 50

:06:01. > :06:03.pence tax policy clearly popularity for the basis rate of income tax to

:06:04. > :06:07.fund public service, that did for the basis rate of income tax to

:06:08. > :06:11.translate into people trusting us to deliver that and trusting us with

:06:12. > :06:15.the vote. That is a more fundamental problem for us. You have lost

:06:16. > :06:22.support to the Conservative Party, in a seat like east ward, Jackson

:06:23. > :06:26.Carlo is the MSP and your guy is dumped into third place. This is the

:06:27. > :06:31.sort sort of denial the Conservatives were in in 1997, if I

:06:32. > :06:36.am being frank. We thought it was unfortunate that people hadn't

:06:37. > :06:40.understand what we were about and if we just, if we spoke more about

:06:41. > :06:45.plainly to people... I think the reality is as Glenn said, the policy

:06:46. > :06:51.programme was listened to and it has been rejected. It depends

:06:52. > :06:55.programme was listened to and it has poll you looked at. There were polls

:06:56. > :06:58.that said 69% said they didn't want tax hiring in Scotland and that

:06:59. > :07:05.England. In any event as I found in a very

:07:06. > :07:06.long time in politics, people will sometimes say one thing to opinion

:07:07. > :07:09.pollsters and when they are asked to go into the ballot box and vote for

:07:10. > :07:13.hiring taxes they have second thoughts. The point I am making

:07:14. > :07:15.which is a much more fundamental problem for the Labour Party, is

:07:16. > :07:20.which is a much more fundamental whatever we said, the point I am

:07:21. > :07:22.making about people not listening, whatever we said, we have a problem

:07:23. > :07:25.in terms of connecting with certain parts of the electorateer for them

:07:26. > :07:34.listening to what we have to say. That is a much more fundamental

:07:35. > :07:35.problem for us as a party. I think that is the realisation, to

:07:36. > :07:37.tinkering round the edges of manifestos or talking about

:07:38. > :07:43.individuals and personalities misses is point. What do you need to do. I

:07:44. > :07:49.think Kez has done the right thing in defining what we stand for and

:07:50. > :07:51.who we stand with. I think we have rightly started talking about o how

:07:52. > :07:54.we use the power of the Parliament rather than talking about the

:07:55. > :07:56.referendum problem. We are ahead of that. I think the country is still

:07:57. > :07:59.referendum problem. We are ahead of thinking about the context of the

:08:00. > :08:06.referendum, the yes and no question, we tried to move past that yes or no

:08:07. > :08:08.question this this captain, that was difficult for us. -- in this

:08:09. > :08:14.campaign. We have to rebuild that trust across the country. One thing

:08:15. > :08:18.we haven't picked up on since the picture started to become clearer,

:08:19. > :08:24.that the SNP win might not include that overall majority, without that,

:08:25. > :08:27.there is not going to be an independence round in the next five

:08:28. > :08:31.year. There won't unless and until the Scottish people want one, that

:08:32. > :08:35.is the key thing. Understood, but the lesson from the 2007-11

:08:36. > :08:41.Parliament where they went in promising a referendum, was you

:08:42. > :08:45.couldn't have had one if you wanted to, you would have been outvoted.

:08:46. > :08:49.Indeed. I would urge a little caution, to my friends, particularly

:08:50. > :08:53.in the Labour Party, we have seen what happened to them, having gone

:08:54. > :08:59.into bed with the Tory, and said no to things whatever it was, for too

:09:00. > :09:05.long, imagine if the Scottish people decide, and they tell pollsters for

:09:06. > :09:07.a year or two or three by an overwhelming majority, they want a

:09:08. > :09:15.referendum and they want to vote yes. Are we going to have the Labour

:09:16. > :09:18.Party, once again, let me finish, once again jump into bed with the

:09:19. > :09:22.Tories and say no to the wishes of the people of Scot? I think that

:09:23. > :09:25.serious challenge for Labour, it is all good and well saying you want to

:09:26. > :09:30.move on from the constitutional question, but you have to understand

:09:31. > :09:35.what it means. It is about the people being sovereign not the

:09:36. > :09:41.Labour Party. Let us... In two years' time, as much as we hope this

:09:42. > :09:43.is going to be happen, it is challenging the opinion polls

:09:44. > :09:46.change. We will be rerunning the election on that basis mandates come

:09:47. > :09:52.from the electorate in an election, election on that basis mandates come

:09:53. > :09:53.they don't come from pollsters. John Curtice shouldn't decide when the

:09:54. > :09:58.next referendum is, it should be the people of Scotland. We will make

:09:59. > :10:03.sure that Jeremy gets a say next time he comes to the panel. I want

:10:04. > :10:08.to go back to our election cafe. Fiona is there with new guests.

:10:09. > :10:12.Indeed, yes. They have been going all night. City

:10:13. > :10:16.going strong, there is no show without Pup and no election campaign

:10:17. > :10:20.without social media. Angela Haggerty who writes a column on

:10:21. > :10:26.social media at the Sunday Herald is here and Ross from the Daily Record.

:10:27. > :10:29.Well done for staying was all night. You have looked at some of the

:10:30. > :10:33.friend trends, what have you noticed. It is difficult to get

:10:34. > :10:39.trends when you are doing the overnight coverage, people are

:10:40. > :10:41.starting to get quick reaction to it. But there has been some surprise

:10:42. > :10:46.at the early results in Orkney and Shetland. People expected, they

:10:47. > :10:52.didn't expect such a big Liberal Democrat return. There has been some

:10:53. > :10:57.surprise at the increase in the Tory vote as well. Just recently with The

:10:58. > :11:00.Greens regional votes coming out, there has been excitement round that

:11:01. > :11:04.stuff and particular Andy Wightman being elected, there has been a lot

:11:05. > :11:08.of chat round that, I think you tend to get more reaction coming through

:11:09. > :11:11.once you have a fuller picture of the results and then you start the

:11:12. > :11:15.see more themes emerging about what the issues will be. We have some

:11:16. > :11:21.results to come, but you have you been keeping a close eye on social

:11:22. > :11:25.media overnight. One of the things I found interesting has been a bit of

:11:26. > :11:28.acrimony between the SNP and The Greens which might start to be

:11:29. > :11:32.interesting if it comes to a potential coalition between the two,

:11:33. > :11:39.if the SNP fall short of the majority. I think the instant

:11:40. > :11:42.reaction which they might regret from the SNP, was one of anger in

:11:43. > :11:48.Edinburgh Central when Tory leader Ruth Davidson won, because The Green

:11:49. > :11:56.vote, that was one of only three constituency The Greens stood in.

:11:57. > :12:01.They had a great performance. Ruth Davidson's majority was only 600, so

:12:02. > :12:05.there was a suggestion from the SNP that maybe their independence

:12:06. > :12:07.supporting colleagues in the Green Party might have considered not

:12:08. > :12:12.bothering standing in that seat. Having said that, the Green Parties

:12:13. > :12:16.have got their own back now as far as the Twitter back-and-forth goes,

:12:17. > :12:25.because 100,000 thousand SNP regional votes in Glasgow have

:12:26. > :12:27.effectively come to nothing, and the implication from The Greens is they

:12:28. > :12:32.are relentless, their strategy has starved the Greens and by extension

:12:33. > :12:38.the pro independence movement of another MSP in Glasgow. It is

:12:39. > :12:45.talking a -- interesting talking about that, you do think people will

:12:46. > :12:47.look at them on social media and say that? I don't think the hashtags

:12:48. > :12:51.themselves influence how somebody is going to vote. In terms of getting a

:12:52. > :12:56.message out and keeping it going strongly I think that has been

:12:57. > :13:03.useful. There has been, that has been one of the areas of conflict in

:13:04. > :13:04.what has been a boring election for a social media, when you compare to

:13:05. > :13:07.it the independence referendum in the general election, there has been

:13:08. > :13:10.conflict within the pro independence block, over how they are going to

:13:11. > :13:13.split their votes or if they should, so that will be interesting, think

:13:14. > :13:20.in the aftermath of the election once we have got the results

:13:21. > :13:21.through, to see how the relationships on social media

:13:22. > :13:24.progress now, and whether they break down a bit further or whether you

:13:25. > :13:28.start to see some sort of the election is over and it is back to

:13:29. > :13:30.business for the pro independence people.

:13:31. > :13:36.Over the campaign as a whole, who do you think did it well and who did it

:13:37. > :13:42.less well? Well, it depends on whether you are reflecting on their

:13:43. > :13:47.own output. Party propaganda on social media by its nature is dry

:13:48. > :13:53.and you know, a stale message almost, but to me, it was the more

:13:54. > :13:55.that you can us through to people who you might not reach and possibly

:13:56. > :13:59.Ruth Davidson was the best example of that. Willie Rennie, he said in

:14:00. > :14:03.his speech, that he had time of his life during this. It was like a

:14:04. > :14:08.bucket list. I don't think anyone could disagree with that. He looked

:14:09. > :14:11.like he was having a great time. Possibly that, you know an

:14:12. > :14:16.enthusiastic leader makes it easier to believe this. Maybe 2015 they

:14:17. > :14:18.were coming out of that coalition and there was this belief the

:14:19. > :14:21.message was the Liberal Democrat fight back and the Liberal Democrats

:14:22. > :14:27.fighting back but that never really showed. You have someone like Willie

:14:28. > :14:33.Rennie who believes it and it is shining out of his eyes, I don't

:14:34. > :14:34.know if that has had cut through, especially in his own constituency,

:14:35. > :14:39.he shocked everyone, possibly even himself. Thank you both to my guest,

:14:40. > :14:45.remember, if you want to take part in the social media conversation,

:14:46. > :14:47.please do, we will keep an eye on, let you know the trend, use the

:14:48. > :15:00.hashtag SP 16. 36 One constituency seats to declare

:15:01. > :15:02.and we are waiting for the results of five regions across Scotland. It

:15:03. > :15:08.looks increasingly difficult for the SNP to achieve the overall majority.

:15:09. > :15:13.What is your calculation? Yes, it does. There is one more constituency

:15:14. > :15:18.to declare which I think the SNP will win. It looks like five more

:15:19. > :15:21.seats on the list is the most likely outcome in the Highlands, two in the

:15:22. > :15:30.South, one in the north-east. It could be one more, one less. It is

:15:31. > :15:33.just one or two short. In these circumstances, Brian, with the

:15:34. > :15:36.support of the Green party, the independence issue could come back

:15:37. > :15:45.into play but on a day to day basis it requires deals to get things

:15:46. > :15:45.done. Couple of things on that, first, the Presiding Officer is

:15:46. > :15:49.going to be rather important in the next Parliament. It had been

:15:50. > :15:54.forecast that the SNP could be in the running for that job. If the SNP

:15:55. > :16:00.are short of an overall majority they are not going to want to give

:16:01. > :16:03.up one of their number to that post. That was the case in 2007. 2011 when

:16:04. > :16:05.it was Alex Fergusson who stepped into the breach from the

:16:06. > :16:11.Conservatives, filling that role when the SNP were reluctant to allow

:16:12. > :16:16.one of their number to take the post. Then you have the business of

:16:17. > :16:20.deals. I have some sympathy with Jeremy Purvis. It was getting

:16:21. > :16:24.slapped around the head. He was forming the principal opposition.

:16:25. > :16:33.Not literally! There was no physical violence. You missed the head

:16:34. > :16:34.slapping. It was not quite the finest moment of the programme!

:16:35. > :16:42.There is a present will opposition party. The others can be

:16:43. > :16:47.influential. I call again that 2007-2011 Parliament. Jeremy Purvis

:16:48. > :16:49.and Derek family for the Conservatives and Adam McGurk. They

:16:50. > :16:53.try to strike deals and Margaret McDonald managed to get something

:16:54. > :17:01.every year and then got a ski slope one year out of John Swinney.

:17:02. > :17:02.Because he needed every single vote. Because it is a budget that counts.

:17:03. > :17:06.There is the matter of getting legislation through, not least, as

:17:07. > :17:12.you point out, legislation for a Referendum if one is proposed. I

:17:13. > :17:16.think at the present moment Nicola Sturgeon is less than inclined to

:17:17. > :17:25.propose one. Let's bring in the political panel again. We did here

:17:26. > :17:26.last time from Jeremy Purvis who was not literally slapped around their

:17:27. > :17:30.head in advancing the case that they had made a little bit earlier. We

:17:31. > :17:34.are waiting for list results. Which could determine whether or not your

:17:35. > :17:42.party finishes fourth or indeed fit in this election. The first three,

:17:43. > :17:43.there was a squeeze and you did not get anything from those. Are you

:17:44. > :17:47.going to pick up enough to stay ahead of the Green Party? I think

:17:48. > :17:53.the way in which the system operates, have we have in discussing

:17:54. > :17:55.is the element, gaining mainland constituencies, that works against

:17:56. > :18:01.us in the regions where we have been successful. If I may, I will come

:18:02. > :18:04.back to the element, if the SNP do not get the overall majority, these

:18:05. > :18:11.are no longer spending budgets, they are tax budgets. There will be no

:18:12. > :18:15.opposition from the Conservatives on the tax-raising budget from the SNP.

:18:16. > :18:18.Because they are agreed. Both parties have agreed not to raise any

:18:19. > :18:25.of the rates. Where will the opposition be? Where will the

:18:26. > :18:29.dynamic be when it comes to the ongoing budget with a minority

:18:30. > :18:34.government situation, when the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats have

:18:35. > :18:38.got a different position and the Labour Party, the dynamic will be

:18:39. > :18:40.very different. Fundamentally, I think if the SNP lose the overall

:18:41. > :18:45.majority in this election, that is think if the SNP lose the overall

:18:46. > :18:50.material change in circumstances coming to the independence

:18:51. > :18:55.Referendum question. Throwing the phrase of Nicola Sturgeon back at

:18:56. > :18:59.her. A change of circumstances, if they lose the majority, which they

:19:00. > :19:05.may well do this morning. Watched you think? You could make a similar

:19:06. > :19:10.argument to say that if the Green Party get twice as many seats as the

:19:11. > :19:12.Liberal Democrats and there is a clear independent supporting

:19:13. > :19:14.majority, that would be the same argument in reverse. I am not going

:19:15. > :19:21.to make that argument. I think we argument in reverse. I am not going

:19:22. > :19:23.should stick to what is at hand. Results are yet to come. We do not

:19:24. > :19:26.know how list votes will break down. Before we get into the realms of

:19:27. > :19:30.know how list votes will break down. what might happen, let's get the

:19:31. > :19:34.votes counted. I think we might get another round of list results from

:19:35. > :19:44.the Highlands and Islands. Here it is. With an electorate of 348,303,

:19:45. > :19:58.the total votes cast in the regional list were 2205 -- -- was with a

:19:59. > :20:08.turnout of 51%. For each candidate as follows, RISE, 889. Scottish

:20:09. > :20:26.Christian Party, 3407. Scottish Conservatives and Unionist Party,

:20:27. > :20:41.44,000 693. Scottish Green Party, 14700 and 81. Scottish Labour Party,

:20:42. > :20:45.22,000 894. Scottish Liberal Democrats, 27,000 223. Scottish

:20:46. > :21:09.National Party, 81,000 600. Solidarity, 793. UK Independence

:21:10. > :21:15.party, 5344. James Stocking, 6389. 370 votes were rejected. Therefore I

:21:16. > :21:18.declare the following candidates are elected to serve as members of the

:21:19. > :21:25.Scottish Parliament for the Highlands and Islands region.

:21:26. > :21:39.Douglas Ross. Scottish Conservatives and Unionist Party. Would a grant,

:21:40. > :21:46.Scottish Labour Party. Edward Mountain, Scottish Conservative and

:21:47. > :21:52.Unionist party. Donald Cameron, Scottish Conservatives and Unionist

:21:53. > :22:10.Party. John Fenny, Scottish Green Party. Marie Todd, Scottish National

:22:11. > :22:17.Party. And David Stewart, Scottish Labour Party. That is the Highlands

:22:18. > :22:20.and islands blessed. All seven seats declared. Three for the

:22:21. > :22:31.Conservatives. We will get back to that in a moment. Central Scotland

:22:32. > :22:34.list... 106. Scottish Christian Party proclaiming Christ's lordship,

:22:35. > :22:41.248. Scottish Conservative Unionist Party proclaiming Christ's lordship,

:22:42. > :22:50.Party, 4217. Scottish Green Party, 880. Scottish Labour Party, 8729.

:22:51. > :22:59.Scottish Liberal Democrats, 423. Scottish National Party, 12 646.

:23:00. > :23:06.Solidarity, Scotland's socialist movement, 279. UK Independence

:23:07. > :23:19.party, 730. Derek Lamont, independent, 35. Total, 26 646.

:23:20. > :23:30.Papers rejected, 26. Total number of votes, 26 672. In terms of the

:23:31. > :23:33.Motherwell constituency, RISE socialist and environmentalist

:23:34. > :23:36.party... STUDIO: I think the returning officer for the Central

:23:37. > :23:44.Scotland regional list is actually going through the total number of

:23:45. > :23:45.list votes which have been cast in each of the Parliamentary

:23:46. > :23:48.constituencies in the region. As that is going to take a while, we

:23:49. > :23:53.will keep monitoring and come back to him when he is ready to declare

:23:54. > :24:00.the outcome of the Central Scotland less. We will go back to the

:24:01. > :24:00.Highlands and Islands. We heard that in full. We will confirm the details

:24:01. > :24:00.for you. less. We will go back to the

:24:01. > :24:03.Highlands and Islands. We in full. We will confirm the details

:24:04. > :24:15.for you. Conservatives have won three sleeps with Douglas Ross... --

:24:16. > :24:18.three seats. All new members of the Scottish Parliament. Conservatives

:24:19. > :24:26.up from two, to three. Labour have been re-elected with Rhoda Grant and

:24:27. > :24:34.David Stewart. Retaining the count of two seeds. A breakthrough for the

:24:35. > :24:35.Green Party with John Fenny elected for them. He served in the last

:24:36. > :24:40.Parliament on the Highlands and Islands but was elected as an SNP

:24:41. > :24:45.member. He then left the party and he sat as an independent because he

:24:46. > :24:51.disagreed with the SNP on Nato. The position changed on Nato. Last but

:24:52. > :24:56.not least, the SNP have picked up one seat, Marie Todd. Another new

:24:57. > :25:03.member at Holyrood. They had three last time around. They had been

:25:04. > :25:08.squeezed this time because of success in the constituency vote.

:25:09. > :25:11.There are potential issues affecting the list in the North East of

:25:12. > :25:19.Scotland. We will see if we can get more details from our reporter in

:25:20. > :25:25.Aberdeen, Stephen Duffer. Quite a strange situation here at the

:25:26. > :25:28.University sports hall. We should be getting the declaration for the

:25:29. > :25:29.North East region list in about five minutes. That is not going to be

:25:30. > :25:35.North East region list in about five happening. It is a partial recount

:25:36. > :25:39.going on. It was announced about 20 minutes ago by the deputy returning

:25:40. > :25:44.officer that they had possibly been regularities in accounting. We have

:25:45. > :25:52.since found out the SNP have complained after finding out that a

:25:53. > :25:53.relative of Lewis Madonna, a Labour candidate in Aberdeen Central, was

:25:54. > :25:58.counting in Aberdeen Central and it candidate in Aberdeen Central, was

:25:59. > :26:05.was then moved to the Aberdeen Donside count and then she was

:26:06. > :26:07.allowed to for the Aberdeen Donside list. Lewis Madonna is also on the

:26:08. > :26:13.list for the north-east. The SNP have complained and the deputy

:26:14. > :26:18.returning officer says that there has not been an issue but it is just

:26:19. > :26:22.to make sure everything is done properly. It will be some time yet

:26:23. > :26:27.until we can get this North East regional list. These are words I do

:26:28. > :26:32.not want to hear at this time of the morning but I suppose we cannot

:26:33. > :26:35.blame you! Thank you for bringing us that update. We will get an update

:26:36. > :26:41.from Jackie. Thank you. Why can we not blame him, that is what I want

:26:42. > :26:44.to know?! Is it a new day for the Scottish political parties? We will

:26:45. > :26:50.look at where they stand right now Scottish political parties? We will

:26:51. > :26:53.with some seats yet to declare. 59 for the SNP, gaining one.

:26:54. > :26:59.Conservatives, massive figure for them, 19. Labour down on 13, they

:27:00. > :27:05.have lost 13. Scottish Green Party on five. Last three. Liberal

:27:06. > :27:10.Democrat on four. Gaining one and we do not have an independent. That is

:27:11. > :27:17.how it is at the moment. The SNP you will recall need 65 seats for the

:27:18. > :27:19.overall majority at Holyrood will stop Nicola Sturgeon said earlier

:27:20. > :27:24.she was optimistic they could at that but she did not take it for

:27:25. > :27:32.granted. It was always going to be a big task to win a majority in a PR

:27:33. > :27:32.system. We broke the system last time and we hope to do

:27:33. > :27:34.system. We broke the system last time but we cannot take anything for

:27:35. > :27:45.granted. We said that throughout the campaign. That is why we emphasised

:27:46. > :27:46.the both votes strategy. I am optimistic but we will wait and see

:27:47. > :27:58.how the rest of the results develop. We have got another list from

:27:59. > :28:06.Central. Scottish Labour... Maud Griffin, Scottish Labour. Graham

:28:07. > :28:18.Simpson, Conservative. In Liam Smith, Scottish Labour. And Alison

:28:19. > :28:19.Harris, Conservative. The total number of votes given for each

:28:20. > :28:25.individual candidate in the number of votes given for each

:28:26. > :28:34.registered RTE was as follows. RISE socialism and environmentalism, the

:28:35. > :28:37.Scottish left Alliance, 1000... STUDIO: Will confirm the list. It

:28:38. > :28:48.was already underway. It is a straightforward split for the

:28:49. > :28:49.candidate. Four Labour MSPs. Richard Leonard, Monica Lennon, Mark Griffin

:28:50. > :28:57.and Elaine Smith elected. The Leonard, Monica Lennon, Mark Griffin

:28:58. > :29:03.Conservative MPs -- MSPs... The last time around, just to be clear, the

:29:04. > :29:11.Conservatives had only one seat. They have got an extra two. The SNP

:29:12. > :29:12.last time had three seats in Central Scotland. This time they have none.

:29:13. > :29:17.Again because of the performance in the constituencies and of course the

:29:18. > :29:25.boat they received in Central Scotland. Labour up one from three

:29:26. > :29:32.seats. Up to four. That is the Central Scotland result. And you'll

:29:33. > :29:40.see on your screen some of the other standing in the Central Scotland

:29:41. > :29:40.list. No prizes for them. The UK Independence Party and some smaller

:29:41. > :29:42.Socialist parties list. No prizes for them. The UK

:29:43. > :29:46.Independence Party and some smaller Socialist parties and others. Let's

:29:47. > :29:51.go back to the political panel and digests the results we have had. We

:29:52. > :29:56.will start with you, Jackson. You seem particularly surprised at

:29:57. > :30:09.picking up not one, not two, but three in Central Scotland.

:30:10. > :30:17.That up lift in the constituency vote really seriously understated

:30:18. > :30:20.the whole success of the Conservative strategy, and Ruth

:30:21. > :30:24.Davidson's appeal to the whiter Scottish electorate to trust her

:30:25. > :30:31.with their regional vote. Vote. Across Scotland peeled are doing

:30:32. > :30:34.that. The BBC is in a position to forecast the final outcome of the

:30:35. > :30:34.election and the forecasting team, including Professor John Curtice

:30:35. > :30:41.predicts that the SNP will finish including Professor John Curtice

:30:42. > :30:48.with 63 seats in the Scottish Parliament. That is two short of the

:30:49. > :30:49.overall majority they have enjoyed over the course of the last

:30:50. > :30:55.Parliamentary term. The Conservatives would finish in second

:30:56. > :31:01.place, according to this prediction with 31 seats, now that would be a

:31:02. > :31:02.record result for the Conservative, their best ever by far, and

:31:03. > :31:07.crucially, it would mean they finish in second place in the Scottish

:31:08. > :31:09.Parliament, becoming the main party of opposition, not the official

:31:10. > :31:15.opposition because we don't have that term at Holyrood in the way we

:31:16. > :31:21.do at Westminster but certainly the second place party and the largest

:31:22. > :31:24.party of opposition. Pushing Labour into third lace with 24 seats

:31:25. > :31:30.according to BBC prediction and the battle for fourth place, The Greens

:31:31. > :31:35.edge it, with six seats according to this BBC forecast, pushing the

:31:36. > :31:39.Liberal Democrats into fifth place at Holyrood, with a final tally of

:31:40. > :31:44.five seats. Now, I should say, should giant line this is a predict

:31:45. > :31:51.tiong a forecast, I should underline this, this is a prediction, a

:31:52. > :31:58.forecast, with a small number of seats to declare. First thing to

:31:59. > :32:01.point out it's a forecast at 7.31am, is not exactly what one might brand

:32:02. > :32:08.courageous, but welcome, welcome nonetheless. At 63 seats they fall

:32:09. > :32:14.short, the, they might be able to form a pact with the green bus for

:32:15. > :32:26.the various reasons, they didn't find them helpful in 2007-11, the

:32:27. > :32:29.tax policies of The Green are even worse. Frankly they got used to

:32:30. > :32:34.governing as a majority, and my guess is very firmly they will seek

:32:35. > :32:39.to do that again. Reaching accommodation on individual issue,

:32:40. > :32:42.on individual bills and above all, on the budget doing an individual

:32:43. > :32:48.deal with the various parties involved. And I stress various

:32:49. > :32:54.parties involved not just the prime opposition party, which look like

:32:55. > :32:55.being the Conservatives. If this is how it ends up, we are looking at to

:32:56. > :33:00.being the Conservatives. If this is some extent something of a rainbow

:33:01. > :33:01.Parliament, certainly a confirmed five party political system, because

:33:02. > :33:05.each and every one parties would be five party political system, because

:33:06. > :33:11.entitled to form a group in the Scottish Parliament, with the rights

:33:12. > :33:14.that go with that. Indeed, and I think that makes the, the

:33:15. > :33:19.calculations about how a government presumably led by Nicola Sturgeon

:33:20. > :33:27.will get its work through. It is not like 2007, when the SNP was then a

:33:28. > :33:29.small minority, it's a big minority, over just short. It only needs to

:33:30. > :33:37.work with one party at a time. Last time it needed to work with two to

:33:38. > :33:38.get anything done. It puts in a strong position, specially when you

:33:39. > :33:41.hoild the financial strings as John Swinney no doubt will be doing. Let

:33:42. > :33:49.us go back to our political panel, because it is not just The Greens

:33:50. > :33:51.that would be in a position to do deals with a Scottish Government

:33:52. > :33:55.short of a majority to this extent, the Liberal Democrats could too, you

:33:56. > :34:02.are firmly opposed to the SNP's position on the constitution, but

:34:03. > :34:05.would that preclude deals on other area, to get some of your business

:34:06. > :34:10.done at Holyrood? I would repeat what I said earlier, that if the SNP

:34:11. > :34:11.have lost an overall majority, that is a material change of

:34:12. > :34:18.circumstances for the independence question. But, on the programme of

:34:19. > :34:22.Government, over the next five year, if you are forecast at 7.30 in the

:34:23. > :34:29.morning is accurate, then we would be constituting a group in Scottish

:34:30. > :34:33.Parliament led by Willie Rennie, I think he has done a remarkable job.

:34:34. > :34:40.That is the number you have had in the last Parliament. It punched

:34:41. > :34:48.above its weight, on nurseries, on sently say, on police, Willie has

:34:49. > :34:52.made his name on that. There will be every indication he will be

:34:53. > :34:57.emboldened to deliver as much of our manifesto as possible. When I was in

:34:58. > :35:01.the Scottish Parliament we tried to work progressively. What is going to

:35:02. > :35:02.the Scottish Parliament we tried to be interesting if the SNP want to

:35:03. > :35:05.get their tax freeze through, they will have to rely on kith votes for

:35:06. > :35:10.this, which will be interesting in the Scottish Parliament. You say a

:35:11. > :35:11.material change of circumstances in the Scottish Parliament. You say a

:35:12. > :35:15.the constitution, but the only material change according to these

:35:16. > :35:19.numbers it isn't just the SNP that would provie a -- provide a majority

:35:20. > :35:26.for independence, in the Parliament, it would be the SNP, together with

:35:27. > :35:30.The Greens. It would be the Hajjty Government which put forward the

:35:31. > :35:33.referendum, which is argued and many people predicted an even bigger

:35:34. > :35:38.majority in this election, at the start, when I was doing the

:35:39. > :35:41.broadcast at the start. If this forecast is direct they have lost

:35:42. > :35:45.the majority, that has to be considered as a material change of

:35:46. > :35:49.circumstances, for the largest party in Scotland. I congratulate them for

:35:50. > :35:52.doing that, it is remarkable. What is a material change of

:35:53. > :35:57.circumstances is that the majority Government has lost its majority.

:35:58. > :36:04.That appears to be the outcome of this election an historic third term

:36:05. > :36:06.but a loss of your overall majority. That is a setback. If the BBC's

:36:07. > :36:11.assessment is correct, that is where we are, that is the First Minister

:36:12. > :36:18.said, as I have said many times over the last 12 hours, to win a majority

:36:19. > :36:21.with this system in the first place is hard, to try and repeat that is

:36:22. > :36:24.extremely difficult indeed. Now, if it moves to a minority Government

:36:25. > :36:32.situation, I am sure two things will happen. One is the SNP will work

:36:33. > :36:37.with other parties, in order to make sure legislation gets through. But

:36:38. > :36:41.of course, more importantly, much of what government does doesn't require

:36:42. > :36:48.legislation, it requires different sorts of actions and decision make,

:36:49. > :36:50.we saw that in the 2007 Government extremely well indeed. So, let us

:36:51. > :36:56.wait and see what the final numbers look like. I think they are going to

:36:57. > :37:01.be pretty close to this. Just, can I correct Jeremy on one thing when he

:37:02. > :37:04.talks about a tax freeze policy. We want to take more people of of tax

:37:05. > :37:13.at the bottom end than the current UK Government want to do we tant to

:37:14. > :37:19.take, we want to increase the 40 pence rate. Think Jeremy has his

:37:20. > :37:23.technical facts wrong again as usual. As far as the rates for

:37:24. > :37:31.income tax, the only parties, that agree on the rates of income tax is

:37:32. > :37:35.the SNP and the Conservatives. OK, I don't want to get into that in any

:37:36. > :37:43.more detail. I will come back to Anas Sarwar and Jackson Carlaw.

:37:44. > :37:50.Well, Glenn, we now have that prediction from the BBC. Off the

:37:51. > :37:52.overall result for Scotland. This is a prediction covering the

:37:53. > :37:57.constituency, and also those regional seats. Remember this isn't

:37:58. > :38:03.a result, but an indication of likely seats based on the results we

:38:04. > :38:09.have so far. Let us see what the Scottish Parliament chamber would

:38:10. > :38:11.look like if that prediction pro-s correct. We could see the SNP --

:38:12. > :38:17.proves. We would see them with 63 seats. The next biggest party, this

:38:18. > :38:23.block of blue over here, that is the Conservatives, with 31 seats, and

:38:24. > :38:30.then, lain. On 24 seats. That is them in red. The Greens on six and

:38:31. > :38:36.the Liberal Democrats on five. But, the bottom line is this. If this

:38:37. > :38:45.prediction is right, the SNP fails to win an overall majority while the

:38:46. > :38:49.Conservatives will displace Labour as the second party in Scotland. The

:38:50. > :38:53.SNP back in control at Holyrood, with Nicola Sturgeon back at the

:38:54. > :39:01.helm as First Minister of Scotland but it would be a minority

:39:02. > :39:03.Government. Remember, this is just a prediction at this stage from the

:39:04. > :39:08.BBC, but a fascinating insight into how the result may stack up, by

:39:09. > :39:13.later in the morning, based on what we have seen so far.

:39:14. > :39:22.Thanks David. Back to our political panel, Anas Sarwar of the Labour

:39:23. > :39:23.Party. When you see it like that, it really demonstrates the shift we are

:39:24. > :39:26.witnessing in Scott Brown Scottish politics, the Conservatives with a

:39:27. > :39:29.bigger block than they have had before and Labour down to something

:39:30. > :39:31.of a rump compared to what you have been used to in the past. Look, it

:39:32. > :39:39.is very grim reading devastating seeing that graphic,

:39:40. > :39:44.would be the honest assessment. It is a very difficult night. One plus

:39:45. > :39:54.point from it, we are looking for plus points, is Richard Lennon and

:39:55. > :39:58.Monica are two new MPs. We will have two new MPs. Not a retread like you

:39:59. > :40:03.as somebody describes you, somebody other than me. In fairness he

:40:04. > :40:10.apologised for that, when came in the I am retread. He didn't

:40:11. > :40:16.apologise on air. Think I am younger than Jackson. But that is not a

:40:17. > :40:22.compliment. You forget in 2007, it was, you know, a cosy coalition in

:40:23. > :40:25.some ways between the SNP and the Tories that got much of the SNP's

:40:26. > :40:30.work through in that Parliament and Jeremy is spot on, you might not

:40:31. > :40:34.have much of an opposition when it comes to the big decisions because

:40:35. > :40:38.you might have a cosy consensus from the Tories and the SNP. It suits

:40:39. > :40:44.them to keep going on about the constitution. He is getting his own

:40:45. > :40:50.back now. I didn't quite apologise. What Ruth Davidson said if she

:40:51. > :40:57.became the Leader of the Opposition the first thing we wold challenge is

:40:58. > :40:59.the named person. We know the Liberal Democrats started to have

:41:00. > :41:02.doubts about this policy will be extraordinary if a minority SNP

:41:03. > :41:05.Government seeks to force through a policy once it has lost its

:41:06. > :41:11.majority. Can I say one other thing, if they have lost the election they

:41:12. > :41:16.need to have a serious examination of their election campaign and I

:41:17. > :41:22.wonder... Lost the election If they have lost their majority I wonder if

:41:23. > :41:27.the position of the chief executive is tenable. Being Peter Murrell, the

:41:28. > :41:36.husband of the leader. It is so Tunis Africa the Tories to want to

:41:37. > :41:39.tackle the named persons legislation, to protect... Deeply

:41:40. > :41:44.unpopular. It is sound, supported by all the professionals. Deeply

:41:45. > :41:50.unpopular. I think if that is the, if that is the issue, if that is the

:41:51. > :41:54.policy that the Tories would want to attack, think it speaks volumes

:41:55. > :41:58.about how we out of touch they remain, no withstanding this result.

:41:59. > :42:04.Labour during the campaign having supported that legislation called

:42:05. > :42:09.for it to be reviewed. Is the SNP in a position if it is indeed a

:42:10. > :42:13.minority Government, in the coming years, prepared to concede that much

:42:14. > :42:19.given the level of concern that has been expressed about this policy? I

:42:20. > :42:23.think Nicola Sturgeon and even in the SNP Government have always said

:42:24. > :42:28.they will take onboard any sensible suggestions, they will listen to any

:42:29. > :42:36.sensible criticisms. Might it need a tweak? When you have a policy

:42:37. > :42:37.supported by the professionals concerned about child protection, to

:42:38. > :42:42.have this degree of opportunism on this subject, I find it

:42:43. > :42:45.mind-boggling. It was a key part of the election campaigned and it would

:42:46. > :42:52.appear we have achieved a considerable result in leading the

:42:53. > :42:54.opposition to this policy. Think we are entitle -- entitled to pursue

:42:55. > :43:01.that. That will be a debate for the Parliament when it gets back, but

:43:02. > :43:07.Jackson Carlaw has put it on the agenda as a priority. Brian Taylor

:43:08. > :43:11.how many seats to come? How many declarations are we awaiting? The

:43:12. > :43:19.one constituency, Midlothian etc, where we expect Christine Graham to

:43:20. > :43:21.win, and we expect, three, west of Scotland, south of Scotland, and

:43:22. > :43:24.North East Scotland regions, I am not going to stand here and sit here

:43:25. > :43:28.and say John Curtice's prediction is wrong, I think it is right. That is

:43:29. > :43:33.where we are going to end up. A couple of ghents on what we have

:43:34. > :43:36.heard there. Bow to Stuart and his support for the names person's

:43:37. > :43:42.legislation, I have also heard Nicola Sturgeon sounding a bit luke

:43:43. > :43:46.warm on the subject of that, saying for example, it wasn't mandatory,

:43:47. > :43:51.saying it was something that could be open to review. Let us put it no

:43:52. > :43:55.hiring than this. If it is a case of dumping that or getting the budget

:43:56. > :44:01.there there is no question of what would happen. If there is pressure

:44:02. > :44:05.upon that and it is going to come from the kith, who, for example,

:44:06. > :44:10.opposition to that policy drew huge applause from those who were there,

:44:11. > :44:16.that maybe misplaced, it may be a wrong priority, but that is the way

:44:17. > :44:18.the country is think, if they have that number of seats in the

:44:19. > :44:22.Parliament they have a bit of clout. It comes down to getting the budget

:44:23. > :44:28.there. If you are keen on results and we certainly will are, the west

:44:29. > :44:33.of Scotland region is due to declare very shortly.

:44:34. > :44:39.And what you can see there, are pictures from the west of Scotland

:44:40. > :44:45.count, so news clearly filtering through to those who fought hard to

:44:46. > :44:51.win places in Parliament. The Greens are among those looking happy, in

:44:52. > :45:02.the west of Scotland. Ladies and gentlemen... Patrick Harvey has

:45:03. > :45:07.turned up at that count. Here we are getting the results.

:45:08. > :45:19.The total number of votes given to each of the registered parties was

:45:20. > :45:32.as follows, RISE 15 to two. -- 1522. Scottish Christian Party, 2391.

:45:33. > :45:44.Scottish Conservatives and Unionist Party, 71 528. Scottish Green Party,

:45:45. > :45:55.17 218. Scottish Labour Party, 72 544. Scottish Liberal Democrats,

:45:56. > :46:12.1209 seven. Scottish Libertarian Party, 484. Scottish National Party,

:46:13. > :46:23.135827. Solidarity, 2609. The UK Independence Party, 5856. The total

:46:24. > :46:38.number of ballot papers rejected was 524. The total number of votes was

:46:39. > :46:44.three to 600. -- 320 2600. Turnout of 59%. The candidates elected to

:46:45. > :46:49.serve in the Scottish Parliament as members for the West Scotland region

:46:50. > :47:00.are as follows... Neil Bradley, Scottish Labour Party, Jamie Green,

:47:01. > :47:04.Scottish Conservatives and Unionist Party, Mary fee, Scottish Labour

:47:05. > :47:11.Party, Maurice Golden, Scottish Conservatives and Unionist Party,

:47:12. > :47:19.Ken Macintosh, Scottish Labour Party, Maurice Corrie, Scottish

:47:20. > :47:30.Conservatives and Unionist Party, and Ross Greer, Scottish Green

:47:31. > :47:31.Party. Thank you very much. In the West of Scotland, three seats for

:47:32. > :47:33.the Conservatives and three for Labour, one for the Scottish Green

:47:34. > :47:40.Party. None for the Liberal Democrats and indeed for the SNP.

:47:41. > :47:42.Who have secured almost as many votes as Labour and the

:47:43. > :47:49.Conservatives put together, but no prizes for that result. Because once

:47:50. > :47:54.again, their performance in the constituencies. These regional lists

:47:55. > :47:56.are designed to help balance out the Parliament and give the parties the

:47:57. > :48:03.number of seats closer to the over all share of the vote. Let's confirm

:48:04. > :48:10.the West of Scotland result. Three Conservative MSPs.

:48:11. > :48:24.None of them have previously served at Holyrood. Labour... All MSPs in

:48:25. > :48:28.the last Parliament. Ken Macintosh, after losing eastward, has made it

:48:29. > :48:38.back to Holly Ruud on the regional list. And the Green party, Ross

:48:39. > :48:42.Greer. A breakthrough in the West of Scotland for the Green party. We

:48:43. > :48:49.have also had the final constituency result in this Holyrood election

:48:50. > :48:53.2016. It is for the Midlothian constituency. And here is the

:48:54. > :49:00.declaration. Michelle Valentine, Scottish Conservatives and Unionist,

:49:01. > :49:10.ten 163. Chris Chapman, Scottish Liberal Democrats, 3686. Fiona

:49:11. > :49:20.Deville, Scottish Labour, 5701. Christine Grahame, Scottish National

:49:21. > :49:25.Party, 160 31. You have been elected to serve as a member for the

:49:26. > :49:27.constituency. The nub of ballot papers rejected and not counted by

:49:28. > :49:35.me at this election was as follows, 156. Voting for more than one

:49:36. > :49:41.candidate, 15... STUDIO: The final constituency result. Holding

:49:42. > :49:50.Midlothian 's, Christine Grahame. Re-elected with over 16,000 votes.

:49:51. > :49:53.Michelle Valentine is second. Labour's Fiona Dugdale, no relation

:49:54. > :50:02.to the party leader as far as I am aware, third place. And Chris

:50:03. > :50:14.Chapman in fourth place. The turnout, 59%. The SNP with a 45%

:50:15. > :50:24.share. The Conservatives on 29. Labour on 16. Compared with 2011,

:50:25. > :50:26.the SNP up. The Conservatives up by a lot more. Labour down slightly and

:50:27. > :50:31.the Liberal Democrats are the big losers, down 18%. A swing of 17%

:50:32. > :50:33.from the Liberal Democrats to the Conservatives. The SNP holding

:50:34. > :50:44.Midlothian 's. Let's have a look at the totals so far. -- Midlothian

:50:45. > :50:48.South. It does not look like the SNP are going to get an overall majority

:50:49. > :50:52.but they have got 60 seats and they have won the election

:50:53. > :51:15.with four Parliamentary. -- Parliamentary seats. We said at the

:51:16. > :51:25.start of the night it would be dramatic. That is quite a big

:51:26. > :51:28.occasion. A couple of regions are still yet to declare, to give us the

:51:29. > :51:32.overall picture. We should bear in mind all the time that we have got

:51:33. > :51:36.the balance of all at which really matters. Nicola Sturgeon will be the

:51:37. > :51:41.First Minister. The SNP have won the election. They will be short of an

:51:42. > :51:49.overall majority but they can drive to Govan without really all that

:51:50. > :51:57.much trouble. -- Govan. -- to be governing. A dreadful night for the

:51:58. > :52:00.Labour Party, quite appalling night. They will need to regroup. I doubt

:52:01. > :52:06.they will change the leader. There is not an appetite to do so. Kezia

:52:07. > :52:09.Dugdale appears determined to continue and build upon what she

:52:10. > :52:17.admitted is a difficult result. Difficult for the Liberal Democrats,

:52:18. > :52:19.falling behind the greens. And with the Labour meltdown in Scotland, we

:52:20. > :52:24.can compare it with Wales. James Williams is in Cardiff with news of

:52:25. > :52:28.the assembly election. It looks like Labour will remain in power like

:52:29. > :52:39.they did at the beginning of devolution. UEFA absolutely. The

:52:40. > :52:39.opposition parties were pitching this as a change election. But after

:52:40. > :52:46.ten hours of counting, Glenn, little has changed. 40 seats, 39 have

:52:47. > :52:55.returned exactly the same assembly members, the same parties. But one

:52:56. > :52:58.big change, Leanne Wood taking Rhondda from the Welsh Labour big

:52:59. > :53:05.beast, Leighton Andrews. A big victory for her party. But as for

:53:06. > :53:07.the rest of the picture it is pretty much as you were. Labour expected a

:53:08. > :53:13.very tough night. But it seems they will return with around 28 seats.

:53:14. > :53:19.Down from 30 but a lot better than expected. It seems the Conservatives

:53:20. > :53:22.have had the worst night. They were gunning for a lot of the Labour -

:53:23. > :53:29.Conservative marginals and hoping to pick up a number of seat. But they

:53:30. > :53:35.fell short in every single one. They have eaten into Labour majorities

:53:36. > :53:37.but did not take a seat. Leanne Wood can put a gloss on her party with

:53:38. > :53:42.her victory and the Liberal Democrats are down to one, very bad

:53:43. > :53:46.night for them. As of five minutes ago, we had a breakthrough in the

:53:47. > :53:50.assembly with Ukip members for the first time will stop two so far. We

:53:51. > :53:59.are expecting as many as eight. STUDIO: Thank you for that in Wales.

:54:00. > :54:05.We can cross to Paisley now. Ken is there for us. Newly re-elected into

:54:06. > :54:09.Holyrood. But this time as a regional list member for the West of

:54:10. > :54:19.Scotland after losing the wood seat he held since 1999. -- Eastwood

:54:20. > :54:26.seat. Congratulations. You have but in a nutshell. I do not know what to

:54:27. > :54:32.feel. Stunned and elated? Let's deal with the constituency first. Not

:54:33. > :54:40.only did you lose after all these years, you were dumped into third

:54:41. > :54:46.place. Why? I think you can see the trend developing over some time. We

:54:47. > :54:51.had a terrible result in 2011. I remember it vividly. The Referendum

:54:52. > :54:55.really damaged Labour. We were seen as the establishment party. We were

:54:56. > :55:01.the party of change. A catastrophe a year ago. Today unfortunately we

:55:02. > :55:03.have not been able to recover from that. It has been a terrible night

:55:04. > :55:08.for my colleagues and for the party. But if I may say so, I cannot point

:55:09. > :55:10.to results to prove this but it feels like we have won some of the

:55:11. > :55:17.arguments. People are questioning feels like we have won some of the

:55:18. > :55:21.the SNP record. We have been able to put an argument forward about tax at

:55:22. > :55:26.the fact that a genuinely progressive party should be able to

:55:27. > :55:35.make a positive case for balancing tax and public services. In a

:55:36. > :55:40.constituency where there is a fair deal of prosperity, maybe that tax

:55:41. > :55:46.message played against you? And to what extent was the anti-Semitism

:55:47. > :55:50.row which broke out towards the end of the campaign a factor in your

:55:51. > :55:57.defeat, given new represents the largest Jewish population in

:55:58. > :56:05.Scotland? -- you represent. I am not sure the tax hike did not work

:56:06. > :56:05.against me. I think that East Renfrewshire is actually a very

:56:06. > :56:12.against me. I think that East ultra stick constituency, if I can

:56:13. > :56:14.put it like that. A liberal constituency, educated, liberal with

:56:15. > :56:20.a small L. You need to have a decent rounds set up public services. On

:56:21. > :56:24.anti-Semitism, I am not going there. I think anti-Semitism in any guise

:56:25. > :56:29.is bad for society, bad for the party, bad for any political party.

:56:30. > :56:34.I am not looking for any excuses or to hide behind it. If the Labour

:56:35. > :56:36.Party has a problem with anti-Semitism we deserve to be

:56:37. > :56:42.punished for it. I do not think the prospects of an individual MSP are

:56:43. > :56:43.more important than tackling some of the prejudices like anti-Semitism.

:56:44. > :56:51.Thank you very much for speaking to us. Maybe you can catch up on some

:56:52. > :56:57.sleep. Live there from Paisley. Let's go once again to Holyrood, the

:56:58. > :57:03.Scottish Parliament. This is what it has been all about. Filling up for

:57:04. > :57:05.the next five years, deciding who will represent different parts of

:57:06. > :57:10.Scotland in the Scottish Parliament. Shelley is therefore asked for the

:57:11. > :57:18.second time this morning. Good morning. Good morning again. It has

:57:19. > :57:19.been a historic election. Because young voters, 16 and 17-year-olds

:57:20. > :57:25.been a historic election. Because for the first time have been able to

:57:26. > :57:31.vote in parliamentary elections in Scotland and decide who will

:57:32. > :57:34.represent them in Holyrood. I am joined by a couple of first-time

:57:35. > :57:41.voters. Was it exciting for you, Brooke? It was a bit nerve

:57:42. > :57:44.voters. Was it exciting for you, But it was great to be voting. Do

:57:45. > :57:50.you think young people felt fully engaged in the election? I think a

:57:51. > :57:54.lot of them. Not all of them. Like any age group. A lot of them were

:57:55. > :58:01.differently, my friends, anyway. What issues were you concerned

:58:02. > :58:01.about, Megan? My main one is education. I just want more money

:58:02. > :58:07.put into it and more time spent on education. I just want more money

:58:08. > :58:12.it so we can see an improvement. Who got your vote? I gave both votes to

:58:13. > :58:13.the Labour Party because they promised to put money into it and

:58:14. > :58:19.that was my biggest issue and that drew me to them. Among your friends,

:58:20. > :58:26.did you find much engagement in the debate? Yes, definitely. Even the

:58:27. > :58:27.ones not from Scotland at university. They were really taking

:58:28. > :58:34.an interest and learning about party policies. Definitely big

:58:35. > :58:37.participation. With a result like that, Labour have not done very well

:58:38. > :58:41.tonight, are you disappointed? I did not expect them to win a large

:58:42. > :58:46.amount. Obviously it is disappointing when they are still

:58:47. > :58:47.losing. Maybe there is a chance to look properly and realise what is

:58:48. > :58:53.going wrong and really take a step back and start rebuilding the party

:58:54. > :58:55.again from the start. Brooke, what were the main issues for you

:58:56. > :59:03.question you took a while decide who to vote for. Similarly to make and

:59:04. > :59:10.it was education and health care. They are two main issues I really

:59:11. > :59:12.wanted to look into. And because of that I ended up voting Liberal

:59:13. > :59:17.Democrat. They have had a reasonable night but obviously not making a

:59:18. > :59:24.very big impact. How did you feel about how things are panning out? I

:59:25. > :59:24.thought they were going to do a little bit better than they

:59:25. > :59:30.thought they were going to do a never expected them to be, similar

:59:31. > :59:37.to Labour, never expected them to be a larger opposition to the SNP.

:59:38. > :59:40.Thank you very much for joining us this morning. That is it for now

:59:41. > :59:46.from Holyrood. Thank you, Shelley. It is Friday the 6th of May. The

:59:47. > :59:52.morning after election night before. The headline so far, the SNP have

:59:53. > :59:54.secured a historic third term in government and Holyrood but it

:59:55. > :59:59.appears they are falling short of an overrule majority. The Conservatives

:00:00. > :00:04.are on course to be the largest party of opposition, displacing

:00:05. > :00:12.labour, pushing them down to third place. Kezia Dugdale has conceded

:00:13. > :00:13.the election and congratulated Nicola Sturgeon and insisted she

:00:14. > :00:17.will remain in charge of Scottish Labour at Holyrood and in the battle

:00:18. > :00:24.for fourth place, it looks like the Liberal Democrats are losing out to

:00:25. > :00:29.the Green party as a five party system at Holyrood emerges from the

:00:30. > :00:30.election result. Let's go to the election cafe and get

:00:31. > :00:33.election result. Let's go to the owner. -- Fiona.

:00:34. > :00:39.We are with the hard-core this morning, the proper journalists who

:00:40. > :00:48.are stayed up all night, fuelled only by coffee and adrenaline, we

:00:49. > :00:53.have Alan Rodin of the Daily Mail. Alan, we don't have a final result

:00:54. > :01:01.but it has been a stunning night. Is that God for Scotland? It has been

:01:02. > :01:06.amazing. It changes the dynamic in Scottish politics dramatically, the

:01:07. > :01:10.Leader of the Opposition will be a pro enterprise leader who will be

:01:11. > :01:19.pro union, and will be in favour of lower taxes and given it looks like

:01:20. > :01:20.the SNP is not going to get its overall majority it gives her a

:01:21. > :01:22.platform to fight for things like the names person legislation, so it

:01:23. > :01:27.changes Scottish politics overnight and kills this myth that Scotland is

:01:28. > :01:31.a left-wing country. You will be a happy man, the idea of Scotland as a

:01:32. > :01:37.non-Tory zone, surely banished by happy man, the idea of Scotland as a

:01:38. > :01:41.the results? It looks like roughly 31 Tory MSPs coming out of this

:01:42. > :01:44.which is phenomenal. I don't think even Ruth would have thought of

:01:45. > :01:49.that. What is interesting in terms of the argument Ruth with the across

:01:50. > :01:50.was of the argument Ruth with the across

:01:51. > :01:53.opposition, she thought that was going to happen under a majority SNP

:01:54. > :01:57.Government. She has more power as the opposition, because we have

:01:58. > :02:01.going to have a minority Government that will lose votes potentially or

:02:02. > :02:08.require support or change policy so the named persons bill and the

:02:09. > :02:09.budget and so on, the Tories can have influence if they choose

:02:10. > :02:15.budget and so on, the Tories can so. This doesn't feel like the

:02:16. > :02:17.resounding SNP success story that some people had billed it as. I got

:02:18. > :02:25.a text from a former colleague in the SNP, who says the SNP have won a

:02:26. > :02:28.record third term, they have won the highest constituency share and

:02:29. > :02:33.highest numb of seats. But you don't have a majority. That is a good

:02:34. > :02:37.night for the SNP. I have been in Government during a minority

:02:38. > :02:38.night for the SNP. I have been in majority. We are all agreed the SNP

:02:39. > :02:46.were at their best during 2007-11. majority. We are all agreed the SNP

:02:47. > :02:47.So mismisis more than capable of steering the

:02:48. > :02:50.through the next four or five years. How will you remember the Scottish

:02:51. > :02:56.elections of 2016? Well, I mean more than one thing can be true at a

:02:57. > :02:59.time. This is a good election for the SNP but a disappointing one, you

:03:00. > :03:02.know, in terms of losing the majority, the real story in that

:03:03. > :03:07.sense I think for this election and the one I will remember, it is Tory

:03:08. > :03:14.Tory Tory. You know, the force awakens, and the union fights back.

:03:15. > :03:19.Do you think we will see Kezia Dugdale lead the Labour Party at the

:03:20. > :03:23.next election? No. I think she will stay for the time being, next year,

:03:24. > :03:27.I think Labour will have a very very tough local election where they

:03:28. > :03:30.could lose Glasgow and North Lanarkshire Council. Five years is a

:03:31. > :03:36.long time and I think by the time we get to 2021 there will be someone

:03:37. > :03:37.else in charge. Finally constitutional question, will that

:03:38. > :03:42.remain a big part of Scottish political life in the next

:03:43. > :03:46.Parliament? There is still a majority, if you add the green MSPs,

:03:47. > :03:50.you have a mandate for independence. I don't suggest it is going anywhere

:03:51. > :03:52.soon. It will be a different type of argument. The Green Party will have

:03:53. > :03:58.more influence on the constitutional debate but it is not going anywhere.

:03:59. > :04:02.I am sure these debates will continue over the next few hours or

:04:03. > :04:12.days, and weeks, and we will have your views.

:04:13. > :04:16.We are off to get more coffee, caffeine, I can't say it now. If you

:04:17. > :04:22.want to get involved, remember the hashtag is SP 16.

:04:23. > :04:25.Thank you Fiona. And we were hearing from Shelley this was the first

:04:26. > :04:31.Holyrood election to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to take part, but it is

:04:32. > :04:35.also the Holyrood election that has returned the youngest ever MSP.

:04:36. > :04:36.also the Holyrood election that has is a member of the Scottish Green

:04:37. > :04:42.Party, his name is Ross Greer, he is with Sally now.

:04:43. > :04:47.Yes, standing beside me with Sally now.

:04:48. > :04:49.above me Ross Greer, celebrating the fact on Monday morning he will

:04:50. > :04:53.become the youngest MSP to walk through the doors at Holyrood. Not

:04:54. > :04:58.just in this Parliament but in fact since the Scottish Parliament began.

:04:59. > :05:01.Ross, congratulations, a satisfying night for you personally. But also

:05:02. > :05:05.for the party. It is an historic night. We still have a couple of

:05:06. > :05:10.regions to come in. This is first time we have elected anyone in the

:05:11. > :05:12.west of Scotland. It shows how much The Greens reach has grown,

:05:13. > :05:15.communities we are part of we haven't been before. It is obviously

:05:16. > :05:18.nice personally to make history as the youngest member of the

:05:19. > :05:22.Parliament, so we are ticking a few boxes here. What do you think has

:05:23. > :05:26.made that difference that made people vote for you this time? At

:05:27. > :05:29.the last election we didn't really exist in the west of Scotland. There

:05:30. > :05:35.are six of us who came to the count from across the region, I was still

:05:36. > :05:37.at school at this point so I got double physicking off in the

:05:38. > :05:42.morning. We didn't have the reach. This time we have had dozens of folk

:05:43. > :05:50.out, knocking on door, engaging with the communities that they are part

:05:51. > :05:52.of. So... The policies make a huge difference, people have shown in

:05:53. > :05:56.this election we can create a better Scotland, everyone knows the

:05:57. > :06:00.Parliament is powerful but you need MSPs who are willing to push for

:06:01. > :06:08.bolder policy f the math shapes up the way we think it is, it looks

:06:09. > :06:10.likest Green group will have a bit of influence. It certainly does. It

:06:11. > :06:13.is looking as if the SNP aren't going to have the overall majority,

:06:14. > :06:20.how closely would you be prepared to work with them? We have always been

:06:21. > :06:26.prepared to work with any Government in Scotland on issues we agree with

:06:27. > :06:29.them on, we, our pre-vens the look at confidence and similar air

:06:30. > :06:36.rangment, but we are going to wait until the results are in and have a

:06:37. > :06:38.look at how it shapes up overall. By think we can be constructive and we

:06:39. > :06:43.can push a lot up, bolder policies through the next session. Taking it

:06:44. > :06:48.issue by issue. That is most likely. Issue by issue is probably most

:06:49. > :06:54.likely, we will have to wait and see how the maths shape up. It looks

:06:55. > :06:57.like there will be a lot of Green win, over the next five years there

:06:58. > :07:01.will be a lot. For 21 years old I know you are experienced but the

:07:02. > :07:09.lest of luck when you walk through Holyrood. Thank you very much. At 21

:07:10. > :07:12.years of age, I suppose that means Ross Greer was four when the

:07:13. > :07:17.Scottish Parliament was first convened back in 1999, we are now on

:07:18. > :07:23.the fifth Parliamentary term and we are also there with Election

:07:24. > :07:25.the fifth Parliamentary term and we He is one of the new faces in the

:07:26. > :07:30.Holyrood chamber over the next five years but there will be many other,

:07:31. > :07:34.let us look at some of the big moments of the Election Night with

:07:35. > :07:41.Katrina. The smile says it all. It was never really a question of the

:07:42. > :07:48.the SNP would win the most seat, but how many.

:07:49. > :07:54.What is now beyond doubt, is that the SNP has won a third consecutive

:07:55. > :07:59.Scottish Parliament election. That has never been done before in the

:08:00. > :08:06.history of the Scottish Parliament. But it wasn't the rout that was

:08:07. > :08:09.predicted, as the ballot boxes were brought in by boat and air and the

:08:10. > :08:13.counting started in enest the faces told a Tory. As Labour, once the

:08:14. > :08:20.biggest party in the Scottish Parliament predicted a bad night.

:08:21. > :08:22.The manifesto we stood on is self immolation for dullies. Others had

:08:23. > :08:24.something of a revival. The first declaration going to the Liberal

:08:25. > :08:32.Democrats. . Liam McArthur is duly elected to serve as a member of the

:08:33. > :08:34.Scottish Parliament for the Orkney islands constituency. And the

:08:35. > :08:43.Liberal Democrats continued to do better than expected. Gaining two

:08:44. > :08:43.seats from the SNP, Edinburgh Western, and their leader Willie

:08:44. > :08:48.Rennie won his own constituency in Fife. Two big wins from the SNP in

:08:49. > :08:54.this election, it is a tremendous result and that is what we are very

:08:55. > :08:57.pleased about. But it is the Conservatives who are the real come

:08:58. > :09:02.back kids of this election. With their best results since 1992. They

:09:03. > :09:08.took Eastwood back and Oliver Mundell is following in his father's

:09:09. > :09:15.footsteps in Dumfriesshirir and their leader took Edinburgh central

:09:16. > :09:20.from the SNP. To people I have been elected to

:09:21. > :09:24.serve, it is the seat I was born in, I was educated at university in, it

:09:25. > :09:32.is a seat I live and work in. It is a seat I hope to serve for many

:09:33. > :09:33.years to come. Thank you very much. Labour, though, have less to be

:09:34. > :09:37.happy about. Losing tradition at heartlands like Cowdenbeath and Fife

:09:38. > :09:41.and they were wiped out in Glasgow, winning not a single first past the

:09:42. > :09:47.post seat. Their leader Kezia Dugdale, failed to win her own

:09:48. > :09:52.constituency, but was elected on the regional list, and has vowed to

:09:53. > :09:59.carry on. No matter what, 100% I am remaining leader of the Scottish

:10:00. > :10:05.Labour Party. Stuart McMillan is duly elected as member of the

:10:06. > :10:11.Scottish Parliament for the Greenock and Inverclyde constituency.

:10:12. > :10:16.But it was SNP victory after victory. Although they have not yet

:10:17. > :10:19.reached that magic number of 65 seats which would give them an

:10:20. > :10:25.outright majority and it could be the other parties who become the

:10:26. > :10:27.king makers like The Green, with their best result ever, so far

:10:28. > :10:30.king makers like The Green, with six seats. We have gained momentum

:10:31. > :10:33.and gained a lot profile during this campaign, and we have gained the

:10:34. > :10:37.perks tie and the experience of getting our campaigners and

:10:38. > :10:46.volunteers out there on a scale that we have never seen. So perhaps this

:10:47. > :10:48.is not the election expected. As we have never seen. So perhaps this

:10:49. > :10:54.wait the see if the SNP does get that overall majority.

:10:55. > :10:57.Let us cross live to Westminster, our political correspondent Carole

:10:58. > :11:00.Walker is there for the picture from the English local Government

:11:01. > :11:04.elections and the impact on UK politics.

:11:05. > :11:10.Yes, thank you Glenn. The picture in England, we still only have about

:11:11. > :11:15.half the council seats in, so far. Labour has lost ground, lost about

:11:16. > :11:20.24 seats so far, one council Dudley, but have not done as badly as many

:11:21. > :11:25.people had predicted. They held on the places like Crawley,

:11:26. > :11:26.people had predicted. They held on Southampton, there had been pretty

:11:27. > :11:29.dire predictions that the party could lose up to 200 seats. It

:11:30. > :11:35.doesn't look as though the losses will be anything like that, serious.

:11:36. > :11:45.But it has to be said that there are already still some new questions

:11:46. > :11:46.about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. Labour MPs are pointing out that the

:11:47. > :11:48.party is nowhere near where it needs to be if it is going to have a

:11:49. > :11:51.chance of regaining power at the next general election, and that

:11:52. > :11:56.Jeremy Corbyn is doing worse than when these seats were last fought

:11:57. > :11:59.four years ago, under Ed Miliband. So, I think that the leadership of

:12:00. > :12:03.the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, will be saying this is no time for

:12:04. > :12:10.questions about a leadership challenge, we need to be rallying

:12:11. > :12:11.round and there doesn't seem to be any immediate prospect of it. The

:12:12. > :12:15.questions remain, certainly about how he is going to reach out beyond

:12:16. > :12:18.Labour's core vote. The Conservatives, just a handful of

:12:19. > :12:27.gain, they will be pretty relieved to be where they are, given the

:12:28. > :12:29.party's own internal divisions over the EU referendum, and that in many

:12:30. > :12:32.ways is the bigger battle for the Conservative Party. Ukip have gained

:12:33. > :12:41.some ground, particularly in Wales, looks as though Labour are going to

:12:42. > :12:43.retain control in Wales, Plaid Cymru making a bit of ground there. Still

:12:44. > :12:47.a mixed picture, and a lot of results still to come, including

:12:48. > :12:51.very significantly the result of the London mayor, here in London, but we

:12:52. > :12:59.won't getting that until later on this afternoon. Thank you, Carole

:13:00. > :13:01.Walker live at Westminster. Now to Jackie Bird. Well it's a third term

:13:02. > :13:04.in office for the SNP, after a resounding win in the Holyrood

:13:05. > :13:09.election, however, it appears the party might fall short of an overall

:13:10. > :13:11.majority. Here is how the parties are sitting with 14 regional seats

:13:12. > :13:17.still to be declared. The SNP at the are sitting with 14 regional seats

:13:18. > :13:21.top with 60. Conservatives a great night for them on 35. The greens on

:13:22. > :13:25.six and the Liberal Democrats trailing behind on four. It has been

:13:26. > :13:27.a disastrous night for Labour, in Scotland, again. They have gained

:13:28. > :13:34.a disastrous night for Labour, in some ground on the list votes but in

:13:35. > :13:36.the constituency battles they lost 13 seats mainly to the SNP and two

:13:37. > :13:41.to the Conservatives. It has been great night for the Conservatives

:13:42. > :13:46.across the country, as I said, their leader won her seat in Edinburgh

:13:47. > :13:50.Central, and will likely find herself as the head of the official

:13:51. > :13:54.opposition in the next Parliament. There were other constituency wins

:13:55. > :13:58.too, with Jackson Carlaw taking Eastwood and one of the big

:13:59. > :14:02.surprises of the night. And new faces on the blue benches come

:14:03. > :14:05.Monday. The Tories will be sending 18 MSPs from the regional lists to

:14:06. > :14:11.Holyrood. Here is what Ruth Davidson had to say. I think one thing that

:14:12. > :14:13.we are learning as tonight goes on, there are people right across

:14:14. > :14:20.Scotland who are sending the SNP there are people right across

:14:21. > :14:26.message. Their voices and the decision we made as a country won't

:14:27. > :14:30.be ignored. Nowhere is that more evident than in Edinburgh Central

:14:31. > :14:37.where we were coming from fourth position, it has been a tremendous

:14:38. > :14:39.fight, some people I would like to think first and foremost. My agent.

:14:40. > :14:42.It was a tremendous fight. Finally this headline in the Aberdeen

:14:43. > :14:48.evening express, attempts to include the big stories of the night. Nick's

:14:49. > :14:55.back, Labour whacked. Tories thrown a bone. They did try!

:14:56. > :14:59.I don't know what to say about that. That is not bad for the middle of

:15:00. > :15:04.the night. Brian Taylor, there are a few things that we have yet to pick

:15:05. > :15:07.up on in this Tory. We haven't said much about Ukip, mainly because they

:15:08. > :15:14.haven't done anything this this election so far. Highlands and

:15:15. > :15:19.islands, no seat there for David Coburn, none anywhere else.

:15:20. > :15:23.They have not taken any seats and do not look like taking any. They were

:15:24. > :15:27.forecasting at one point they would not look like taking any. They were

:15:28. > :15:33.take one in every region and in particular David was optimistic in

:15:34. > :15:37.the Highlands. It has not happened. I'm looking at some of the shares.

:15:38. > :15:44.It is at two points rather than the seven or eight needed. West of

:15:45. > :15:50.Scotland, 1.8. 2.2, Central Scotland. It is that level. That is

:15:51. > :15:52.nowhere near taking a seat. Ukip remain other than a force in

:15:53. > :15:59.nowhere near taking a seat. Ukip Scottish politics despite his

:16:00. > :16:02.presence as a represented member of the European Parliament. Some other

:16:03. > :16:11.rivals point out that they have lost their majority, the SNP. What is the

:16:12. > :16:15.most significant feature? It is a remarkable victory for the SNP. Top

:16:16. > :16:20.constituency result ever. More constituency seats than ever before.

:16:21. > :16:26.But it will feel to many like a real disappointment. There was that

:16:27. > :16:29.expectation of a second absolute majority. That raises the issue

:16:30. > :16:38.about the second vote, the regional list vote. A couple weeks ago when

:16:39. > :16:38.there was speculation the SNP might get almost all of the constituency

:16:39. > :16:43.seats, people were saying if that is the case the regional list vote for

:16:44. > :16:47.the SNP is wasted. You can give it to the Greens or something else, the

:16:48. > :16:54.Greens in particular and get a pro independent majority. That appears

:16:55. > :16:58.to have damaged the SNP. We are projecting 42% on the regional list.

:16:59. > :17:05.That is why they do not have a majority. Expectation management a

:17:06. > :17:10.problem in this campaign, Stuart? I do not think we were setting the

:17:11. > :17:13.hares running. Other people were saying we would win every seat. That

:17:14. > :17:17.was always going to be ridiculously difficult to the point of

:17:18. > :17:24.impossibility. What it does tell all of us, and the public, this is a PR

:17:25. > :17:28.Parliament. Proportional representation. You can run a

:17:29. > :17:33.minority administration as we did successfully in 2007. You can run a

:17:34. > :17:39.formal alliance like Labour and the Liberals in previous parliaments.

:17:40. > :17:42.You can run a majority government but it is very difficult to get.

:17:43. > :17:47.This is a salutary reminder to everybody that it is a proportional

:17:48. > :17:56.Parliament. We all have to come to terms with the fact that not every

:17:57. > :17:57.government in Scotland will be a majority

:17:58. > :18:00.normal service is resumed? There has only been one majority government

:18:01. > :18:03.out of five so far. We might have one next time, we might not. But it

:18:04. > :18:08.is a lesson to all of us one next time, we might not. But it

:18:09. > :18:12.the governments from time to time will have to do deals, negotiate,

:18:13. > :18:16.listen carefully, maybe not try and pass as much legislation and try

:18:17. > :18:20.other ways to make sure that programmes for government are

:18:21. > :18:28.delivered. Will this make it a better Parliament for Labour? The

:18:29. > :18:29.result we have had today is obviously disappointing. We have

:18:30. > :18:32.lost some very good colleagues who will be a loss to the Parliament. I

:18:33. > :18:36.think this will bring back more consensual politics that we used to

:18:37. > :18:41.have in the Scottish Parliament before 2011 and the SNP majority. It

:18:42. > :18:47.also means the new Scottish Government will be faced with a

:18:48. > :18:49.choice and that is, do they use conservative votes to push through

:18:50. > :18:55.austerity budgets or go with parties like Labour, the liberals and the

:18:56. > :19:01.Greens? All parties which had in their manifestos decisions and

:19:02. > :19:03.choices to increase tax and stop austerity. I think that is a choice

:19:04. > :19:08.which will be on the radar very quickly. And I think in this

:19:09. > :19:11.election we have seen the Scottish public deliver a result which I

:19:12. > :19:17.think is probably broadly where the country is right now. Which is a

:19:18. > :19:20.strong SNP vote reflecting the outcome of the Referendum but more

:19:21. > :19:24.diversity on the other side. Even on the left fringes of the SNP, the

:19:25. > :19:31.Greens, people peeling off to the Greens. I think it is bringing more

:19:32. > :19:33.diversity. Not what we wanted, Greens. I think it is bringing more

:19:34. > :19:37.obviously. A more consensual as Parliament in the next five years?

:19:38. > :19:44.David McLetchie would have hated that. Certainly. Last year David

:19:45. > :19:48.Cameron went from minority to majority. SNP have gone from

:19:49. > :19:52.majority to minority. I think we are underselling the significance of the

:19:53. > :19:55.story. The presumption underpinning everything everything happening

:19:56. > :20:00.today in the campaign was the SNP were going to form another majority

:20:01. > :20:04.government. We are talking about the committee structure. Which of course

:20:05. > :20:14.the SNP have dominated in the last Parliament. There was a feeling the

:20:15. > :20:16.SNP minority government was a better legislative government banned the

:20:17. > :20:19.majority government proved to be between 2011 hands today. I think it

:20:20. > :20:23.will be very interesting to see, given they will clearly now be a

:20:24. > :20:27.more robust opposition across the whole Parliament, even if the

:20:28. > :20:33.Conservatives are now leading it, as to what that does to the whole tempo

:20:34. > :20:36.of Parliament. There was definitely an arrogance in how it was drifting.

:20:37. > :20:44.I think that has been halted tonight. We have touched on the

:20:45. > :20:49.election of a new Presiding Officer. Presumably the SNP with the numbers

:20:50. > :20:53.they are looking at will not want one of their number to be elected to

:20:54. > :20:57.that post. Looking at it from your perspective, Jeremy, would it be

:20:58. > :21:06.healthier for some body to take that job from an opposition party and for

:21:07. > :21:11.the committee to no longer have an in-built SNP majority? There has

:21:12. > :21:18.been opposition government Presiding Officer is. I think that will be one

:21:19. > :21:22.of the genuine choices for all MSPs and regardless of party position, as

:21:23. > :21:26.a former member of the Finance committee I desperately want to see

:21:27. > :21:30.the Holyrood parliament may be following the Westminster House of

:21:31. > :21:36.Commons and have a directly elected chair. I know Patricia was

:21:37. > :21:39.Commons and have a directly elected about that. The last outgoing

:21:40. > :21:44.Presiding Officer. That would change the dynamic when there is a minority

:21:45. > :21:50.governing party. I think it will be very different. The status of the

:21:51. > :21:55.SNP manifesto is very different compared to an overall majority. How

:21:56. > :22:01.will Nicola Sturgeon, what language will she used to define the mandate

:22:02. > :22:04.she will have, it will be very different. For the life of me I

:22:05. > :22:08.cannot think the SNP manifesto now has a mandate to be delivered in

:22:09. > :22:16.Tiley. That is a very interesting dynamic. -- delivered completely.

:22:17. > :22:22.But as the fifth placed party, having been overtaken by the Greens.

:22:23. > :22:29.With five MSPs, we would love to have gone further. But that is

:22:30. > :22:30.broadly relevant. I think Willie have gone further. But that is

:22:31. > :22:37.will continue to punch beyond his have gone further. But that is

:22:38. > :22:42.weight. Six of five broadly in a minority situation is not relevant.

:22:43. > :22:47.I think we need a sense of reality. We are the largest party, we won the

:22:48. > :22:51.election but it is not a majority. Technically you are right. There is

:22:52. > :22:58.not the right to deliver everything in the manifesto. But be in no

:22:59. > :23:04.doubt, 47%... In the election of regional members to represent the

:23:05. > :23:13.region, the votes cast were... Clydesdale and South Scotland

:23:14. > :23:19.independent, 1485. RISE respect independence, socialism and

:23:20. > :23:29.environmentalism, 1097. The Scottish Conservative and Unionist party, 107

:23:30. > :23:42.53. The Scottish Green Party, 14 773. The Scottish Labour

:23:43. > :23:53.56072. Scottish Liberal Democrats, 11th 775. The Scottish National

:23:54. > :24:06.Party, 120 217. Solidarity, the Scotland socialist movement, 1294.

:24:07. > :24:12.The UK Independence Party, 676. -- six 726. The regional members have

:24:13. > :24:17.been allocated and I therefore declare the following candidates

:24:18. > :24:21.elected as members of the Scottish Parliament for the South Scotland

:24:22. > :24:32.region. Claudia Beamish, Scottish Labour Party. John McAlpine,

:24:33. > :24:33.Scottish National Party. Rachel Hamilton, Scottish Conservative and

:24:34. > :24:44.Unionist Party. Emma Harper, Hamilton, Scottish Conservative and

:24:45. > :24:57.Scottish National Party. Colin Smith, Scottish Labour Party. Paul

:24:58. > :25:04.Wheelhouse, Scottish National Party. And Brian Whittle, Scottish

:25:05. > :25:11.Conservatives and Unionist Party. That is your south of Scotland list.

:25:12. > :25:16.The declaration has completed. Jim Hume of the Liberal Democrats are

:25:17. > :25:21.losing out. No Liberal Democrats returned in the south of Scotland.

:25:22. > :25:24.Three seats for the SNP with two for the Conservatives and two for the

:25:25. > :25:33.Labour Party. Let's confirm those elected. Joan McAlpine returns after

:25:34. > :25:38.failing in her constituency battle, back as a list member. Emma Harper,

:25:39. > :25:42.a new member. And SNP minister Paul Wheelhouse, who lost out to the

:25:43. > :25:51.Conservatives as they did back into Holyrood. I am sure he had a

:25:52. > :25:52.nail-biting period between the constituency declaration and this

:25:53. > :26:02.one. For the Conservatives, two new MSPs... And Labour's two are Claudia

:26:03. > :26:12.Beamish and a new member, Colin Smythe. Here is how the regional

:26:13. > :26:17.seats are breaking down. The Conservatives have been the biggest

:26:18. > :26:27.winners on the list so far. Up by ten on last time. Labour has 19. No

:26:28. > :26:37.change on last time. The Scottish Greens are on six. Up by four. The

:26:38. > :26:43.SNP have four. Down 11 on last time. The Liberal Democrats have not

:26:44. > :26:46.picked up any regional seats and at this stage they are down two. The

:26:47. > :26:50.others are down one. Which I suspect reflect the fact that Margo

:26:51. > :26:58.MacDonald passed away in the last Parliament and therefore it was,

:26:59. > :26:59.therefore was not a candidate this time around. The total number of

:27:00. > :27:04.seats come with one regional list left to declare, the SNP has 63

:27:05. > :27:13.seats. Two short of the overall majority. Down five on 2011. The

:27:14. > :27:18.Conservatives are on 27, up 14. Labour on 22, in third place. Down

:27:19. > :27:25.by 12. The Scottish Greens have six, up four. The Liberal Democrats have

:27:26. > :27:32.four at Holyrood. Brian Taylor, is there any way the SNP could get over

:27:33. > :27:37.the line in this last list? It does seem unlikely. Even in the previous

:27:38. > :27:43.election when they won every constituency seat, they took one

:27:44. > :27:49.list MSP from the north-east, and they not doing as well, well enough,

:27:50. > :27:50.to get two. They would need two. It seems to me that they will fall just

:27:51. > :27:56.that little bit short. But they will seems to me that they will fall just

:27:57. > :28:02.will be First Minister and they have won the election. They have won the

:28:03. > :28:03.election but as we have been discussing, it will be a different

:28:04. > :28:10.kind of Parliament in the next few years, Charlie Jeffery? It certainly

:28:11. > :28:16.will be, if they do for one seat short. We will be looking at where

:28:17. > :28:17.deals are made. And where Parliament itself becomes a more important

:28:18. > :28:24.deals are made. And where Parliament venue for business. The committees

:28:25. > :28:31.should be a little bit more like the original vision and maybe as we saw

:28:32. > :28:34.between 2007 and 2011, as an arena for genuine discussion had not just

:28:35. > :28:41.discussion driven by the party whips. We can go live to Aberdeen.

:28:42. > :28:47.We are awaiting the result of the North East regional list. Is there

:28:48. > :28:59.any chance the SNP could pick up a couple? I think the feeling here is

:29:00. > :29:01.no. Probably one. But that comes down to the last result from the

:29:02. > :29:04.North East region which has just been declared, Aberdeen Donside.

:29:05. > :29:10.There was a recount. We will see what happened in Dundee. Angus and

:29:11. > :29:18.Aberdeen. The maths will be done now. The sense or my kids the SNP

:29:19. > :29:25.will be very happy to get one. Two is probably too difficult. But they

:29:26. > :29:31.surprised us at the last election by getting one after winning all the

:29:32. > :29:32.constituencies in the north-east. But the mood and sense is I think

:29:33. > :29:32.constituencies in the north-east. that one seat is all they will get

:29:33. > :29:46.from the north-east less. Any update on the timing of what is now the

:29:47. > :29:54.final declaration? Yes, exactly. I will recount what happened. Earlier

:29:55. > :29:55.concerns had been raised that a relative of the Labour list

:29:56. > :30:01.candidate had been counting votes and the list of votes for Aberdeen

:30:02. > :30:06.Donside. That is why there was a partial recount. There is no

:30:07. > :30:08.suggestion of any irregularity. But the returning officer malted --

:30:09. > :30:11.wanted to make sure things were done properly. They will be doing the

:30:12. > :30:17.maths just now to decide on proportionality, of what is the

:30:18. > :30:23.Aberdeen Donside result means to the whole mix. It could be in the next

:30:24. > :30:31.ten minutes, maybe. But I am sticking my neck out. We will not

:30:32. > :30:31.hold you to that unless it does not happen. Thank you very much, live

:30:32. > :30:36.from Aberdeen. Democrats are below The Greens in

:30:37. > :30:43.this election they wins to celebrate. We hear that Tim

:30:44. > :30:44.Farron, the federal leader of the Liberal Democrats will help Willie

:30:45. > :30:50.Farron, the federal leader of the Rennie celebrate not in the five

:30:51. > :30:57.North East constituency, where Willie Rennie won, but in Edinburgh

:30:58. > :30:59.Western where Alex Cole-Hamilton made the breakthrough and won that

:31:00. > :31:04.seat back from the SNP. Let us get more now from David Henderson.

:31:05. > :31:10.Glenn, a Scottish Parliament has been described by many as the

:31:11. > :31:13.settled will of the Scottish people, but it is already changed a lot. In

:31:14. > :31:19.its short history. MSPs have come and gown and the powers too are

:31:20. > :31:25.anything but settled. -- gone. Let us take you back, back to 1999.

:31:26. > :31:31.Queen Elizabeth, opening the Parliament, which at that time was

:31:32. > :31:34.in its temporary home, at the church of Scotland's jeedge. Donald Dewar

:31:35. > :31:38.was the first First Minister but he was governing in coalitions with the

:31:39. > :31:47.Liberal Democrats. There is their leader Jim Wallace.

:31:48. > :31:49.Fast forward, four year, after the 2003 election, Labour were leading

:31:50. > :31:55.another Coalition Government, Jack McConnell there, the First Minister,

:31:56. > :31:59.but this was the rainbow Parliament with smaller parties, very well

:32:00. > :32:02.represented. There is Rosie cane, one of six socialist MSPs in the

:32:03. > :32:11.Parliament. The Greens were represented. So too the senior

:32:12. > :32:16.citizens unity Party and Margo MacDonald there, elected as an

:32:17. > :32:20.independent. Let us jump to 2007. Voting confusion on the night you

:32:21. > :32:27.may recall with more than 100,000 ballots rejected N the end, the SNP

:32:28. > :32:28.emerged in charge, Alex ballots rejected N the end, the SNP

:32:29. > :32:40.becoming Scotland's fourth First Minister. No coalition deal this

:32:41. > :32:41.time. Instead, the SNP chose to govern as a minority, the smaller

:32:42. > :32:43.par twirs squeezed out of par 78 -- parties were squeezed out of

:32:44. > :32:47.Parliament which was in its permanent home at Holyrood. Let us

:32:48. > :32:55.move on the 2011, a thumping victory for the SNP, despite a voting system

:32:56. > :32:57.designed to make it very difficult for any party to win overall

:32:58. > :33:01.control. Alex Salmond was back in charge, and able to call a

:33:02. > :33:03.referendum, on whether Scotland should become an inds country.

:33:04. > :33:08.Independent country. The vote should become an inds country.

:33:09. > :33:14.no, Alex Salmond resign and Nicola Sturgeon took over. Which Which

:33:15. > :33:17.brings to 2016 and this election to a stronger Scottish Parliament,

:33:18. > :33:21.gaining further powers over income tax and welfare. As things stand

:33:22. > :33:28.this morning Nicola Sturgeon is set to be First Minister again, but

:33:29. > :33:30.probably not at the helm of a majority Government, as she was

:33:31. > :33:36.before. Instead, it looks like we will see a return to the minority

:33:37. > :33:45.Governments last seen as Holyrood between 2007, and 2011. So, what

:33:46. > :33:47.will Nicola Sturgeon do with the Parliament's new powers? Is another

:33:48. > :33:52.independence referendum off or on the agenda? Is the will of the

:33:53. > :33:56.Scottish people truly settled? Lots of questions, glen, to which we

:33:57. > :34:02.don't yet have all the answers. Not just yet. 63 seats is the tally

:34:03. > :34:06.for the SNP at the moment. If they pick up one more, in the North East,

:34:07. > :34:10.and we think we will get that declaration pretty soon, that would

:34:11. > :34:14.take them to 64. Doesn't quite take them over the winning line, the

:34:15. > :34:22.overall majority that 65 would represent, of course somebody has to

:34:23. > :34:24.become the presiding officer, so in those circumstances, you would have

:34:25. > :34:29.potentially, well, a tie-breaking situation, but who would want the

:34:30. > :34:35.job of being the presiding officer? Perhaps something we will pick up on

:34:36. > :34:41.in a moment. We have our political panel here, we have

:34:42. > :34:44.in a moment. We have our political politics Charlie Jeffrey from

:34:45. > :34:50.Edinburgh University and Brian Taylor with further analysis. It

:34:51. > :34:53.could be interesting. After you, after you, Labour said in their

:34:54. > :34:59.manifesto it shouldn't be the lead party. The SNP will be saying great

:35:00. > :35:04.idea, we will adopt that policy tomorrow and it should be a Labour

:35:05. > :35:09.MSP. Glancing at the dashboard, there is the hence that shows the

:35:10. > :35:17.change, that probably counts as North East Fife. -- hex. Let us look

:35:18. > :35:20.at the map of Scotland as well. SNP seats everywhere. There is Willie

:35:21. > :35:23.Rennie, the Conservative victory, quite a few scattered round. A

:35:24. > :35:26.couple of Liberal Democrats as well in the Northern Isles but it is the

:35:27. > :35:30.list that has added in the Northern Isles but it is the

:35:31. > :35:34.difference in the selection tonight. There is the chamber as it currently

:35:35. > :35:39.is, with still four seats to be, no, seven of course, it is the all the

:35:40. > :35:43.list seats in the North East still to be declared. Now, let us take a

:35:44. > :35:49.look back, oh, there is the chamber, that is helpful. 122 declared. Gap,

:35:50. > :35:53.Conservative, SNP pretty well substantially there but as we have

:35:54. > :35:56.been saying, unlikely to get an overall majority. Let us look as

:35:57. > :36:03.where we are on constituency share etc. So the first one that comes up

:36:04. > :36:10.is the share of the vote in the constituencies, and what we call the

:36:11. > :36:15.first vote. 47% for the SNP, and they are falling short of an overall

:36:16. > :36:21.majority, but that is still staggering, 47%. Lain at 23, on the

:36:22. > :36:24.majority, but that is still constituency, ousting the. Liberal

:36:25. > :36:31.Democrats 8. The others don't feature because they don't stand in

:36:32. > :36:35.that many seats. SNP up one, Labour down a staggering nine,

:36:36. > :36:39.conservatives up an impressive eight, Liberal Democrats down minus

:36:40. > :36:46.0.1. Pretty well standstille here is the share of the vote for the

:36:47. > :36:50.regions. Again, the SNP are in the lead. At 43%, precious good it did

:36:51. > :36:53.them in terms of getting seats on the list vote, because they got so

:36:54. > :36:57.many of the constituencies. Conservatives though, are on 22%,

:36:58. > :37:02.and they have ousted the Labour Party on the share of the vote, for

:37:03. > :37:07.the regions. That is little gap there, that is telling a lot of the

:37:08. > :37:10.story of the night. Here is another story of the night. The Greens on

:37:11. > :37:15.the regional share on 7%, more than the Liberal Democrats, that is why

:37:16. > :37:19.The Greens are picking up seat, the Liberal Democrats four

:37:20. > :37:22.constituencies. The change in the share of the vote on that regional

:37:23. > :37:26.vote. Down two for the SNP, whopping increase for the Conservative, up

:37:27. > :37:30.ten. Labour down, Greens up two but enough to really help them into a

:37:31. > :37:37.good position, Liberal Democrats pretty well standstill on 0. 1%.

:37:38. > :37:40.That is how it is shaping up. Thank you. Just those seven seats

:37:41. > :37:42.still to be declared in the north-east. The North East regional

:37:43. > :37:46.list, that is what we are waiting for. That is what they are waiting

:37:47. > :37:50.for. Everybody is waiting for it. I don't think we have too much longer

:37:51. > :37:56.the wait. We are through until just after 9.00 this morning. I

:37:57. > :37:58.confidently predict we will get this result between now and then.

:37:59. > :38:04.Hopefully sooner rather than later, but in the meantime, let us talk a

:38:05. > :38:10.bit more about the outcome of this election, with our political panel,

:38:11. > :38:16.we still have Stewart Hosie from the SNP, Mark McCluskey for Labour.

:38:17. > :38:21.Jackson Carlaw and Jeremy perhaves for the Liberal Democrats. --

:38:22. > :38:28.Purves. 63, if it becomes 64. How will Nicola Sturgeon play that I

:38:29. > :38:35.think when Brian was doing through the number, he it quaints what

:38:36. > :38:37.Nicola Sturgeon will do. The SNP have more than Labour and Tory

:38:38. > :38:41.compared. List votes more than Labour and Tory combined. We haven't

:38:42. > :38:48.got an overall majority, that is clear. There is a pretty decent

:38:49. > :38:54.mandate for that manifesto though. I wouldn't be surprised if Nicola

:38:55. > :38:57.tried to press on and get as much of that detail manifesto delivered as

:38:58. > :39:04.possible, given the strength of the support and the fact it is more than

:39:05. > :39:11.Labour and the Tory combined. Even in list or first preference votes.

:39:12. > :39:14.Does that mean doing a deal on each policy with other parties or what?

:39:15. > :39:19.If we are back in to a no overall majority position, of course it has

:39:20. > :39:24.to be discussions, there has to be negotiation, a bit of give-and-take.

:39:25. > :39:29.That is a good thing. I said earlier perhaps we are back to a more

:39:30. > :39:32.proportional situation system, perhaps the majority was the

:39:33. > :39:38.aberration for that one term. The key thing will be to say let us talk

:39:39. > :39:42.where we can, let us try and deliver as much of that manifesto because it

:39:43. > :39:46.is very close to having a very good mandate. Would you rather in these

:39:47. > :39:51.circumstances, that where ever presiding officer is that he or she

:39:52. > :39:56.comes from a party other than the presiding officer is that he or she

:39:57. > :40:01.SNP? I think it would have to depend on where the deals might be struck,

:40:02. > :40:04.as to whether or not you would want to have the presiding officer or

:40:05. > :40:08.not. But given there are clear rules. Given there are clear rules

:40:09. > :40:12.round what the presiding officer does, can and cannot do. It is less

:40:13. > :40:19.of an issue that some people would make it out to be. Jackson Carlaw,

:40:20. > :40:22.the second place party now as Holyrood, the Conservative,

:40:23. > :40:26.promising a strong opposition, that was the slogan that Ruth Davidson

:40:27. > :40:34.campaigned on. What does that mean? It means exactly what it say, that

:40:35. > :40:35.Ruth Davidson is going to read a principled centre-right opposition

:40:36. > :40:37.Ruth Davidson is going to read a to the SNP, not just. Against

:40:38. > :40:42.everything they propose? For example on the Health Service, where I think

:40:43. > :40:50.we have proved to be quite a constructive opposition in the last

:40:51. > :40:52.Parliament, we didn't stand on the sidelines and simply shout sucks to

:40:53. > :40:53.you, in fact we said we would work with the Scottish Government, on

:40:54. > :40:57.some of the difficult decisions that need to be taken in order to secure

:40:58. > :41:05.the public service health model we want to see in the next Parliament.

:41:06. > :41:08.And in fact both our parties were promising a significant increase in

:41:09. > :41:13.funding. On certain issues no. It will be a principled opposition,

:41:14. > :41:16.another key issue, it will no longer be a minute minute me opposition

:41:17. > :41:20.where we sit on the sidelines and say we would have done the same

:41:21. > :41:25.tinge but we would have done it better so you will have a different

:41:26. > :41:30.character to the opposition. It is interesting, we are seeing the

:41:31. > :41:33.character to the opposition. It is of a new democratic spirit

:41:34. > :41:38.despending from Stuart's shoulders as he starts to talk about to, it is

:41:39. > :41:42.to be the democratic decision of the Parliament. This is the first sign

:41:43. > :41:47.think of the practical reality of last night's result dawning. Another

:41:48. > :41:52.reality which no doubt has already dawned on Labour, is this

:41:53. > :41:54.place position. A diminished position in the Scottish Parliament,

:41:55. > :41:58.does that mean Martin, that we can expect Labour to spend the next

:41:59. > :42:04.period looking inwards and obsessing about what went wrong and what it

:42:05. > :42:10.needs to do, to recover, or will it be a force in the opposition ranks

:42:11. > :42:15.at Holyrood too? Absolutely not. There is not going to be a long

:42:16. > :42:21.period of introinspection and intro version, we had a devastating

:42:22. > :42:23.result. This is a disappointing result tonight. Last year we lost

:42:24. > :42:27.all bun of our MP, tonight is not where we wanted to be but it was

:42:28. > :42:31.going to be a challenge, and we always, we were clear about that.

:42:32. > :42:34.Kez was clear about that when she was elected nine months ago, that

:42:35. > :42:36.you know, it was going to be difficult and would take time to

:42:37. > :42:39.come back. She has been given a mandate by the party for what she

:42:40. > :42:49.come back. She has been given a sighs as a five year project, --

:42:50. > :42:54.sees. To regain that ground, and I think the Stuart spoke, this is one

:42:55. > :43:01.of the most timid manifestos we have seen. If anything, I made this point

:43:02. > :43:10.earlier, I make it again. We published ours for the public to

:43:11. > :43:11.look at. We did as well. That was an argument for the... Let us not

:43:12. > :43:13.revisit that. It was a timid manifesto and the SNP... It's a

:43:14. > :43:17.winning manifesto. Aty mid manifesto and the SNP... It's a

:43:18. > :43:18.manifesto. The SNP will have a choice in Government as to whether

:43:19. > :43:22.manifesto. The SNP will have a they look to the left or a centre

:43:23. > :43:26.right opposition that the Conservatives are offering, not a

:43:27. > :43:33.centre-left opposition. So do they choose to go down the austerity

:43:34. > :43:38.route or be more radical? It has often been said or suggested that

:43:39. > :43:42.Scotland is a left leaning country. Given the success of the

:43:43. > :43:49.Conservatives tonight, is that true now, if it ever was true? I think it

:43:50. > :43:52.is more complex than that now. I think that identify and -- identity

:43:53. > :43:57.and nationalism is here, it is here to stay for a long time. That is why

:43:58. > :44:02.I am convinced there is very little space for Labour in the future of

:44:03. > :44:04.Scottish politics, I think this is fundamental to the future of the

:44:05. > :44:08.Labour Party, I think that there is a form of realignment over the next

:44:09. > :44:12.Parliament, and the fact this is going to be likely to be a minority,

:44:13. > :44:17.will change the dynamic in addition to that. So it is going to be a very

:44:18. > :44:20.different next five years in Scottish Parliament than we thought,

:44:21. > :44:27.when we started this broadcast at 10.00 last night. The election of

:44:28. > :44:35.course following a lengthy six week long campaign, some people said that

:44:36. > :44:37.it was dull, that it was tepid, think was the word Brian Taylor used

:44:38. > :44:39.to describe it. It wasn't without its lighter moments as Andrew has

:44:40. > :45:09.been finding out. It was a more sedate campaign Trail

:45:10. > :45:27.for the SNP leader. Politicians are drawn to babies during elections. I

:45:28. > :45:41.am here with Nicola Sturgeon... This thing coming up, he cannot hear us.

:45:42. > :45:51.# We will stay forever this way... # You are safe in my heart and my

:45:52. > :46:02.# We will stay forever this way... # heart Will go on and on...

:46:03. > :46:10.They poured out their hard for the people of Scotland. But worthy

:46:11. > :46:18.impressed? Have you paid a lot of attention to the campaign? Ie

:46:19. > :46:26.Interested in it? No. None of the issues capture your imagination?

:46:27. > :46:36.Things like income tax? No. So, the politicians look to the animal

:46:37. > :46:46.kingdom for inspiration... LAUGHTER... He is eating my air! And

:46:47. > :46:52.the bits you have all been waiting for. We would like to organise a

:46:53. > :46:55.visit and send a message and pick out exactly what we are asking for.

:46:56. > :47:06.I think this does it very well today.

:47:07. > :47:11.STUDIO: I do not know if Willie Rennie has worked out the message he

:47:12. > :47:17.was trying to communicate. Have you any idea? They are not hiring him

:47:18. > :47:22.for the panda situation at the moment. I think it is not clear. We

:47:23. > :47:32.are growing and multiplying. What on earth was he doing climbing into a

:47:33. > :47:32.star I and trying to mark it out while they were knocking over the

:47:33. > :47:39.wheelbarrow quest Mark what message was it sending other than clean up

:47:40. > :47:43.the mess? It gave you and others plenty of material to work with and

:47:44. > :47:48.I suppose we have to be grateful for that. Shelley is at the Scottish

:47:49. > :47:53.Parliament. I do not know of you have a highlight from the campaign

:47:54. > :48:00.and from the many photocalls, some more quirky than others? It has got

:48:01. > :48:03.to be the pigs, really, hasn't it? Welcome back to wonderfully sunny

:48:04. > :48:08.Holyrood. Maybe it is a sign of wings to come. This is where all the

:48:09. > :48:16.new MSP 's will be arriving on Monday morning, to get registered

:48:17. > :48:19.and settled into their new job for the next five years. On Wednesday,

:48:20. > :48:23.on The Eagles the first sitting of the new parliamentary session, we

:48:24. > :48:32.will have a multi-faith service at the cathedral. But business proper

:48:33. > :48:36.starts the next day, on Thursday. The outgoing Presiding Officer will

:48:37. > :48:41.preside over the screening in of oaths and affirmations. They cannot

:48:42. > :48:48.take part in Parliamentary procedure until they have done that. Then they

:48:49. > :48:50.will be a new Presiding Officer elected. It will not be until the

:48:51. > :48:57.following week, probably made the 19th, that's the First Minister will

:48:58. > :49:04.be elected. We will see a lot of changes. But I think there is little

:49:05. > :49:06.doubt that the First Minister is going to be Nicola Sturgeon. Almost

:49:07. > :49:12.certainly leading a minority SNP government. That is what Her Majesty

:49:13. > :49:19.is likely to find when she comes to Edinburgh in July to open the

:49:20. > :49:29.Parliament. For the fifth session of this Scottish Parliament. She will

:49:30. > :49:31.address MSPs in the chamber. A lot to look forward to but from

:49:32. > :49:37.Holyrood, for now, that is it. Thank you very much for that look ahead,

:49:38. > :49:43.Shelley. Brian, I have always found it a bit odd that the Queen opens

:49:44. > :49:45.the new session of Parliament and they wrap up for the summer

:49:46. > :49:51.holidays. Seems like an excellent idea to me. You are beginning as you

:49:52. > :49:59.are ending. The reason there is a vote in parliament is that the rules

:50:00. > :50:01.were Parliament has to nominate to Her Majesty the nominee for the

:50:02. > :50:06.First Minister. Her Majesty The Queen generally does not deny it.

:50:07. > :50:10.Has not done so far. Some contented conservatives are looking on, with

:50:11. > :50:16.the North East result. I described the Labour Party's result as the

:50:17. > :50:20.worst since 1910 in terms of being the place. I have done some thorough

:50:21. > :50:27.research and it is only the worst since 1918. It was only because

:50:28. > :50:31.Charlie told me that I agreed. In 1918 they came third behind the

:50:32. > :50:34.Conservative Party, two forms of liberal, coalition and

:50:35. > :50:38.non-coalition, winning only six seats in that remarkable election,

:50:39. > :50:45.the post-war election. Not quite seats in that remarkable election,

:50:46. > :50:50.bad as was feared but not exactly stunning. I do not think they fought

:50:51. > :50:56.every constituency in the country. That is one of the curious factors.

:50:57. > :50:59.In 1922 the Conservative Party declared themselves to be distinct

:51:00. > :51:04.and autonomous and the Labour Party gained 29 seats in Scotland. They

:51:05. > :51:07.have done awfully well since for the most part. Going further back into

:51:08. > :51:12.the 19th century, they have nothing and the Liberal party were the

:51:13. > :51:17.totally dominant party, winning nearly all the seats and virtually

:51:18. > :51:20.all the votes. I think we are getting closer to that Aberdeen

:51:21. > :51:27.declaration. The final declaration of election 2016. Is he going to

:51:28. > :51:31.make it all is he giving us an update? Not just yet. Those seven

:51:32. > :51:38.seats in the north-east of Scotland will complete the 129 members of the

:51:39. > :51:45.Scottish Parliament. We hope to bring you that very shortly. These

:51:46. > :51:50.are live pictures from Aberdeen. And that is where the results of the

:51:51. > :51:54.North East list will be declared. I think we are moving towards that

:51:55. > :51:58.position. We will stay with these pictures for the moment and we will

:51:59. > :52:05.bring in contributors from the political panel that we have. The

:52:06. > :52:09.Conservatives have been picking up seats on this list, Jackson Karloff.

:52:10. > :52:14.You had two in the north-east last time. Would you expect something

:52:15. > :52:23.similar or to do better this time? Making the breakthrough? I think we

:52:24. > :52:25.are going to do better than that and that is over and above the fact we

:52:26. > :52:31.have taken a seat, first past the post, in the region as well. But I

:52:32. > :52:37.think what the entire result demonstrates is the strategy of the

:52:38. > :52:39.Scottish Conservatives asking people to consider how they use their

:52:40. > :52:43.second vote and casting at four Ruth Davidson has a strong opposition

:52:44. > :52:49.appeals to people across Scotland and in all parts. It is not in

:52:50. > :52:53.isolation. It happened in every region across Scotland and I think

:52:54. > :52:58.it is quite remarkable. The challenge for us is to deliver on

:52:59. > :53:04.the enormous result we have achieved. Jeremy, the Liberal

:53:05. > :53:11.Democrats had won the seat in the north-east this time -- last time.

:53:12. > :53:15.You have been squeezed but might you hang onto that seat in the

:53:16. > :53:19.north-east? If I may talk about the loss in the region, he has been a

:53:20. > :53:28.great friend of mind and a very active MSP and he will be missed. I

:53:29. > :53:31.hope we can correct that by having a North East seat on the list. That

:53:32. > :53:37.would be the return of Mike rumbles to the Scottish Parliament. A

:53:38. > :53:44.prominent figure after losing his seat at the last Holyrood election.

:53:45. > :53:46.He has decided to try and come back. He is the lead candidate in the

:53:47. > :53:52.north-east. We may see more of him in Holyrood in the coming years.

:53:53. > :53:56.From a Labour Party perspective, three seats last time, even if you

:53:57. > :54:00.win them again, it will not take you close enough to the Conservatives.

:54:01. > :54:03.You will still be close enough to the Conservatives.

:54:04. > :54:13.whatever happens. We would hope to see at least two seats returned.

:54:14. > :54:19.Lewis MacDonald and Jerry Mara. The result we are saying as I have said

:54:20. > :54:27.already is disappointing. But it does provide us with a spread across

:54:28. > :54:31.Scotland of MSPs who can provide opposition in the next five years to

:54:32. > :54:35.the SNP. If it is two seats, the third-place candidate, who has only

:54:36. > :54:38.been an MSP for a handful of weeks after coming in when another Labour

:54:39. > :54:45.MSP stood down towards the end of after coming in when another Labour

:54:46. > :54:47.the Parliament, she loses her seat but as I understand would be able to

:54:48. > :54:54.claim half a year Parliamentary salary in a payoff. Does that seem

:54:55. > :54:58.fair? I am not exactly sure how the rules work in Holyrood. But I am

:54:59. > :55:00.sure that is a decision for Leslie if she is returned to the Scottish

:55:01. > :55:07.sure that is a decision for Leslie Parliament this morning. But as I

:55:08. > :55:13.say, I do not know the rules. Around pay and conditions. You were a

:55:14. > :55:19.candidate but you have not served in the Scottish Parliament. The SNP,

:55:20. > :55:22.Stewart Hosie, have dominated the north-east at the last election but

:55:23. > :55:26.they still picked up one Parliamentary constituency. What is

:55:27. > :55:31.your best guess for this list result? Even though we lost West

:55:32. > :55:35.Aberdeenshire it will be very hard to take our place on that list. I

:55:36. > :55:44.think the Tory vote will be enough to take a number. I think the Labour

:55:45. > :55:45.Party will pick up at least two. The way the Greens have been picking up

:55:46. > :55:48.and the Liberals have not, I would not be surprised if the Greens pick

:55:49. > :55:52.up and the Liberals do not. At that stage the Liberals would not eat a

:55:53. > :55:58.formal group in Parliament which would weaken their position going

:55:59. > :56:03.forward. I guess we will have to live with that. If we picked up one,

:56:04. > :56:10.great. Two, I would be delighted. I expect we are not going to and 63 or

:56:11. > :56:12.64 is where we will be. It is important for the Scottish Greens

:56:13. > :56:17.because Maggie Chapman on the co-convenor, leading the party along

:56:18. > :56:20.with Patrick Harvey is the leading candidate. It would be a blow for

:56:21. > :56:30.her if she was not elected this time. Regardless of Parliamentary

:56:31. > :56:30.arithmetic, there will be some Parliamentary challenges for those

:56:31. > :56:35.Parliament Aryans. They will determine Scottish income tax. That

:56:36. > :56:39.debate we have heard will happen. They will control some welfare

:56:40. > :56:43.proposals. And we have not heard about council tax. Big changes are

:56:44. > :56:48.proposed by several parties on council tax. Whether it is the SNP

:56:49. > :56:53.version or some input from the Conservative proposals. The

:56:54. > :56:57.Conservative and SNP proposals are quite close to each other. Labour

:56:58. > :57:03.taking a different position and the Greens considerably different.

:57:04. > :57:05.That'll be really intriguing and Roy, do these things matter. Income

:57:06. > :57:10.tax allowance of tax and expenditure. It is the amount coming

:57:11. > :57:11.from the pocket and that Parliament, however formed, however calculated,

:57:12. > :57:18.whatever the final shape, however formed, however calculated,

:57:19. > :57:21.to take the decision and that is a big choice. That is the big change

:57:22. > :57:26.in this new parliament and it will be the most powerful Scottish

:57:27. > :57:31.Parliament there has been to date. And looking internationally it

:57:32. > :57:35.becomes one of the more powerful ones around the world. And that does

:57:36. > :57:39.require not only the boldness to take the call decisions, but it

:57:40. > :57:44.expertise. This is about technique expertise. This is about technique

:57:45. > :57:51.-- taxation, welfare powers and it takes the Parliament into a new area

:57:52. > :57:52.-- taxation, welfare powers and it of complexity. Some have suggested

:57:53. > :57:57.it is Hollywood's growing up after 17 years. Becoming responsible not

:57:58. > :58:04.just for spending decisions but having to think about how money is

:58:05. > :58:07.raised as well. And among the line-up in Aberdeen, some of those

:58:08. > :58:10.who will be taking part in the decision-making in that next

:58:11. > :58:24.Parliament, let's see if Zac Lee who has been elected. A lecture at, 5794

:58:25. > :58:35.for four. Total votes, 307 524. Turnout, 53%. I, the returning

:58:36. > :58:35.officer for the Scottish Parliamentary election in the North

:58:36. > :58:38.East Scotland region give notice the total number of votes for each

:58:39. > :58:46.registered hearty at the election was as follows... The commonest

:58:47. > :58:54.party of Britain, 510. RISE respect, socialism and environmentalism, 599.

:58:55. > :58:58.Scottish Christian Party, proclaiming Christ's lordship, 268.

:58:59. > :59:18.Scottish Conservatives and Unionist Party, 85 848. The Scottish Green

:59:19. > :59:32.Party, 15 123. Scottish Labour Party, 38 791. The Scottish Liberal

:59:33. > :59:36.Democrats, 18 four for four. -- 18,400 44. Libertarian party, 552.

:59:37. > :59:56.Scottish Front, 617. Scottish National Party, 170 86. Solidarity,

:59:57. > :00:04.Scotland's socialist movement, 992. Ukip, 6376. Rejected votes, 518.

:00:05. > :00:09.Reasons, as follows, lack of official mark, or unique identifying

:00:10. > :00:11.mark, zero. Voting for more than one party, one of three. Writing a mark

:00:12. > :00:16.by which the voter could be party, one of three. Writing a mark

:00:17. > :00:21.identified, four. Boyd for uncertainty, for 11. The following

:00:22. > :00:26.candidates are elected to serve as members of the Scottish Parliament

:00:27. > :00:26.for the North East Scotland region... Alec Johnson, Scottish

:00:27. > :00:42.Conservative and Unionist. Jenny Marra, Scottish Labour Party.

:00:43. > :00:55.Ross Thompson, Scottish Conservative and unionist.

:00:56. > :01:01.Peter Chapman, Peter Chapman Conservative and Unionist Party.

:01:02. > :01:05.Scottish Labour Party. Mike run dells Scottish Liberal Democrats.

:01:06. > :01:20.And Liam Kerr Scottish Conservative. Can fifths are back big time in the

:01:21. > :01:26.North East of Scotland, with seats, the Conservatives. Four seats. They

:01:27. > :01:28.are the big winner, the Conservatives Alex Johnstone returns

:01:29. > :01:47.to Holyrood. And the come back kid, Liberal

:01:48. > :01:50.Democrat Mike Rumbles, he wasn't there over the last five years but

:01:51. > :01:56.he has resumed his Holyrood career at this election, making it in on

:01:57. > :02:01.the North East list. No seat for The Greens there, their co-leader Maggie

:02:02. > :02:07.Chapman hasn't made it and no seat either for the SNP, albeit they had

:02:08. > :02:13.one last time round. So that leafs them on a final total of 63 seat,

:02:14. > :02:17.the largest party, the winners of this election, but short of that

:02:18. > :02:27.overall majority, which would come with 55. So the total seats, let us

:02:28. > :02:30.confirm those for you. The SNP as I say on 63. That is down six on last

:02:31. > :02:35.time. The Conservatives in second place, with 31, up 16. Labour pushed

:02:36. > :02:40.into third place, with 24 seat, down 13. The Greens, taking fourth place,

:02:41. > :02:46.pushing the Liberal Democrats into fifth, they have got six seats, up

:02:47. > :02:49.four, the Liberal Democrats finish with FIA. That is enough to form a

:02:50. > :02:53.Parliamentary group. It is Mike Rumbles that gives them

:02:54. > :02:57.their Parliamentary strengths to form a group. In a previous

:02:58. > :03:05.existence it was Mike Rumbles that was petroling and causing chaos

:03:06. > :03:11.within that group. -- rebelling: You don't recall that? He was sweetness

:03:12. > :03:16.and light. He is a fine MSP and I am sure it will be a welcome return

:03:17. > :03:23.back. He was quite a character and he was character full as well. Well

:03:24. > :03:25.done for get back. Well done to the SNP for winning the election, very

:03:26. > :03:30.bad might for Labour, there will have to be a huge relate speck tick,

:03:31. > :03:34.astonishing result for the Conservatives. Not back to full form

:03:35. > :03:46.but back there and well done The Greens. Well done them all. Charlie

:03:47. > :03:46.Jeffrey, an SNP win, a new opposition force in the

:03:47. > :03:51.Conservatives as the second place party, and Labour with the worst

:03:52. > :03:57.result, if not for 100 years since 1918. Let us put it into

:03:58. > :04:02.perspective. The SNP with this result seen from ten years ago,

:04:03. > :04:06.extraordinary, it is a brilliant victory. Labour's result, let us

:04:07. > :04:12.look at the seats they have won in the Scottish Parliament. First one

:04:13. > :04:17.56, then 50, 46, 37, 24. This is a party that looks like it is in

:04:18. > :04:23.pretty much terminal decline. Do that for the Conservatives. 18, 18,

:04:24. > :04:33.17, 15. This was party on the deathbed. 31 this time. It has

:04:34. > :04:34.doubled. The Conservative Party has rediscovered a social base, in rural

:04:35. > :04:38.Scotland. In the North East, and in the south. The Labour Party has lost

:04:39. > :04:42.one, in the west of Scotland and in central Scotland. Scottish politics

:04:43. > :04:45.has been turned upside down, over these last few year, What does the

:04:46. > :04:49.new Parliament look like? Let these last few year, What does the

:04:50. > :04:54.cross to David Henderson and see how it is shaping up. Well, we have

:04:55. > :05:00.inched our way towards a result, through the night, through the

:05:01. > :05:02.morning, and now we have it. Let us look first at the 73 constituency

:05:03. > :05:07.seat, here is our map of Scotland. look first at the 73 constituency

:05:08. > :05:15.There are huge swathes of yellow, the SNP have won the lion's share of

:05:16. > :05:17.seats, 59 in all, spread throughout the country. But there is also

:05:18. > :05:23.plenty of blue there, in the south of Scotland. But also here, in

:05:24. > :05:28.Aberdeenshire West, and in Edinburgh Central, where their leader Ruth

:05:29. > :05:32.Davidson won. They took seven constituency seat, including four

:05:33. > :05:39.new wins. Meanwhile, Labour took a drubbing,

:05:40. > :05:42.they lost 13 seat, and were left with just three first past the post

:05:43. > :05:48.MSPs. The Liberal Democrats overtook them with four, including a win for

:05:49. > :05:54.Willie Rennie, in North East Fife. Of course, 56 MSPs were also elected

:05:55. > :05:56.through regional lists, these declarations arriving in the last

:05:57. > :06:08.few hours. They are crucial to the outcome. Labour gained 21 seats that

:06:09. > :06:14.way. The Conservatives 24. The SNP just four and The Greens trebling

:06:15. > :06:19.their tally of seats from the last Parliament with six MSPs.

:06:20. > :06:24.So, here is how the Scottish Parliament looks as a result. In the

:06:25. > :06:30.centre of the chamber, this big block of yellow. That is the SNP,

:06:31. > :06:36.with 63 seats. They remain the biggest party, but they are two

:06:37. > :06:41.short of an overall majority. Over here, the blue block, the

:06:42. > :06:50.Conservatives, with 31 seats. They take over from Labour, as the

:06:51. > :06:52.biggest opposition party. Then, over here, Labour, a party which was once

:06:53. > :06:59.the dominant force in Scottish politics, it is now relegates to

:07:00. > :07:06.third place, with just 24 MSPs. The Greens there have six, and the

:07:07. > :07:08.Liberal Democrats have five. So, that tallies with the BBC prediction

:07:09. > :07:14.we gave you earlier. We will know who will be governing, it is the

:07:15. > :07:20.SNP, led by Nicola Sturgeon, but they are going to need some help, as

:07:21. > :07:22.a minority Government. If they are to pass legislation, the big

:07:23. > :07:27.question, who will it come from? Thank you David. A big win for the

:07:28. > :07:33.SNP, in this election but plenty for the Conservatives to smile about,

:07:34. > :07:41.not least with you in Aberdeen Steven Duff? No, probably the final

:07:42. > :07:44.celebrants in a hall of Scottish Parliament elections 2016. The

:07:45. > :07:51.Conservatives have had a big night in the North East and in Scotland,

:07:52. > :07:57.they are expect -- unexpectedly took Aberdeen west and they took a fourth

:07:58. > :08:04.ribs list seat away from the SNP, so defying the SNP that majority --

:08:05. > :08:06.denying the SNP that majority. A big night for the SNP, you can't take

:08:07. > :08:14.that away from them, they won all by one of their constituency, one short

:08:15. > :08:18.of what they did in 2011. The celebrations I am sure will continue

:08:19. > :08:25.for a bit longer here at the Sports Centre in Aberdeen.

:08:26. > :08:26.Thank you very much indeed. Thanks to the Conservatives, timing their

:08:27. > :08:33.celebrations beautifully for when the cameras crossed to Aberdeen for

:08:34. > :08:39.the last time, where the last MSPs were elected in this 2016 Holyrood

:08:40. > :08:42.contest. Let us get some final thoughts from our political panel,

:08:43. > :08:49.an extraordinary election Stuart, a big win for the SNP but not as much

:08:50. > :08:53.as you won by last time A big win, one thing strikes me, PR has helped

:08:54. > :08:57.deliver a big result for the Tories and saved Labour from on live I

:08:58. > :09:03.don't know but the Tories in particular, I hope they now come to

:09:04. > :09:09.love proportional representation. It has given you a job at Holyrood down

:09:10. > :09:11.the years Jackson Carlaw, it is time for a change point of view sip on

:09:12. > :09:17.that? I know we have a significant number of first past the post wins

:09:18. > :09:23.in this election as well. That is 24 brand-new members of the Parliament,

:09:24. > :09:30.who are going to be coming from the Scottish Conservative ranks, a Gold

:09:31. > :09:32.Medal winning track athlete. A football referee, retail manager,

:09:33. > :09:35.farmers, a real mix of expertise that will be part of that new

:09:36. > :09:39.Parliament. Jeremy, from a Liberal Democrat

:09:40. > :09:42.point of view, you are from, you weren't wiped out but you have been

:09:43. > :09:52.beaten by the greens. That is what was forecast. Not only being wiped

:09:53. > :09:54.out but losing Orkney and Shetland. We have an anchor grip, we have more

:09:55. > :09:58.constituencies than the Labour Party in Scotland, which no-one predicted

:09:59. > :10:06.at all. That is to credit of Willie Rennie who fought such an up lifting

:10:07. > :10:08.campaign, and it has been, I think, defied predictions and it has been a

:10:09. > :10:15.campaign, and it has been, I think, good result for us. We have lost Jim

:10:16. > :10:20.Hume. It is a grant loss. Alison was outstanding. Very satisfied overall.

:10:21. > :10:23.The Labour Party has the deepest wounds after this election Martin,

:10:24. > :10:28.some people have suggested your position is now terminal, is that

:10:29. > :10:35.how you see it? No, this is, we have got a different Parliament, we have

:10:36. > :10:36.a much broader group of parties, in there, we are the largest party on

:10:37. > :10:41.the centre-left, providing opposition to the SNP, and I don't

:10:42. > :10:46.take the pessimistic view of Jeremy earlier where he said we were in

:10:47. > :10:50.terminal Dick line. Calfly -- Charlie makes interesting points in

:10:51. > :10:53.the central seats in the west and in Glasgow, it still is the Labour

:10:54. > :10:59.Party that is second in all of the constituency, and I am not trying to

:11:00. > :11:03.do down the result this evening, but you, we are coming second and that

:11:04. > :11:09.is where we will have to build for the long-haul. Final thoughts brine?

:11:10. > :11:14.The abiding image is Willie Rennie and the pig, the image of tonight's

:11:15. > :11:19.result is that incredible grin on the face of Ruth Davidson. She

:11:20. > :11:21.advised her candidates when she launched the manifesto, smile until

:11:22. > :11:26.your jaws ache. She didn't have to put it on tonight, she meant it. It

:11:27. > :11:35.has been a extraordinary election, an extraordinary result. The SNP

:11:36. > :11:36.returned to Government in Scotland for the first successive term, and

:11:37. > :11:39.they fall short of that overall majority, the Conservative securing

:11:40. > :11:44.second place, the main party of opposition in the Scottish

:11:45. > :11:48.Parliament for the next five year, pushing Labour into third place, one

:11:49. > :11:52.of the worst results the party has suffered over the last century. The

:11:53. > :11:58.Liberal Democrats pushed into fifth by The Greens, from all of us on the

:11:59. > :11:59.BBC Scotland election team, thank you for watching, enjoy the rest of

:12:00. > :12:11.your day. Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish National

:12:12. > :12:41.Party. 15200.... Bob Doris is elected. Ivan McKee is

:12:42. > :12:47.elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament. Sandra White is elected

:12:48. > :12:51.to serve in the Scottish Parliament. Hamza Youssef Scottish National

:12:52. > :13:02.Party, # Stay with me for stay with me

:13:03. > :13:06.# Tonight you're going to stay with me. #

:13:07. > :13:11.The public notice that David Jackson me. #

:13:12. > :13:20.Carlaw is elected as member of the Scottish Parliament for Eastwood

:13:21. > :13:28.constituency. Gerald Joseph McGarvey, Scottish

:13:29. > :13:39.Labour Party, 3004 total. Sorry. 304, my apologies.